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院士

yuànshì

academician

A gray-haired scholar receives a cinnabar red medal with a globe model beside
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Characters in this word

院 yuàn

Strokes
9
Radical
阝 — place, town, city
Made of
阝 place, town, city 完 to complete, to finish, to settle
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 院

Example phrases

  • 这位院士长期研究深海材料,成果被应用于多个重大工程。 Zhè wèi yuànshì chángqī yánjiū shēnhǎi cáiliào, chéngguǒ bèi yìngyòng yú duō gè zhòngdà gōngchéng. This academician has long studied deep-sea materials, and the results have been applied in several major engineering projects.
  • 他三十岁就当选院士,成为最年轻的科学家之一。 Tā sānshí suì jiù dāngxuǎn yuànshì, chéngwéi zuì niánqīng de kēxuéjiā zhī yī. He was elected academician at thirty, becoming one of the youngest scientists to receive the title.
  • 一位院士受邀为学生们讲了一堂关于宇宙的公开课。 Yī wèi yuànshì shòuyāo wèi xuéshengmen jiǎngle yī táng guānyú yǔzhòu de gōngkāi kè. An academician was invited to give students an open lecture about the universe.

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