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博士

bó shì

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

博士 (bó shì) means "doctor". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 博士 means

1. doctor (as an academic degree)
2. oldperson specialized in a skill or trade
3. oldcourt academician

The characters in 博士

• 博bó(bound form) abundant; plentiful; extensive; wide; to win; to gain; to play; to gamble
• 士shìmember of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor

Example sentences

• 她取得了博士学位。
  Tā qǔdé le bóshì xuéwèi.
  She received a doctor's degree.
• 我正在在波士顿读博士。
  Wǒ zhèngzài zài Bōshìdùn dú bóshì.
  I'm in Boston going for my Ph.D. right now.
• 预定在一点半与博士见面。
  Yùdìng zài yīdiǎn bàn yǔ bóshì jiànmiàn.
  I planned to meet the professor at 1:30.
• 我可以把你介绍给强森博士吗?
  Wǒ kěyǐ bǎ nǐ jièshào gěi Qiángsēn bóshì ma?
  May I introduce you to Dr. Johnson?
• 汤川博士在科学研究上起了很重要的作用。
  Tāngchuān bóshì zài kēxué yánjiū shàng qǐ le hěn zhòngyào de zuòyòng.
  Dr. Yukawa played an important part in the scientific study.
• 即使她没生病，到了规定的日期她也完成不了她的博士论文， 因为论文题目涉及的内容太广泛。
  Even if she wasn't sick, she couldn't complete her doctoral thesis by the deadline because the thesis problem contains a vast amount of detail.

Words starting with 博士

• 博士生bó shì shēngPhD student; doctoral candidate
• 博士后bó shì hòupostdoc; postdoctoral fellow
• 博士山Bó shì ShānBox Hill, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia with a large Chinese community
• 博士学位bó shì xué wèidoctoral degree; PhD
• 博士导师bó shì dǎo shīdoctoral advisor; PhD supervisor
• 博士茶bó shì chárooibos tea
• 博士买驴bó shì mǎi lǘ(idiom) to act like the scholar who wrote at length about buying a donkey without even…

Words containing 博士

• 超博士chāo bó shì(Taiwan) postdoc; postdoctoral fellow
• 文学博士wén xué bó shìDoctor of Letters
• 法学博士fǎ xué bó shìDoctor of Laws; Legum Doctor
• 医学博士yī xué bó shìdoctor of medicine
• 名誉博士míng yù bó shìhonorary doctorate; Doctor Honoris Causae
• 荣誉博士róng yù bó shìhonorary doctorate; Doctor Honoris Causae
• 浮士德博士Fú shì dé bó shìDr Faustus
• 哲学博士zhé xué bó shìDoctor of Philosophy; PhD
• 东方三博士Dōng fāng sān Bó shìthe Magi; the Three Wise Kings from the East in the biblical nativity story

Sounds the same

Read bó shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 博世(surname) Bosch; Bosch, German technology company
• 袯襫woven rush raincoat

Where 博士 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Academic study & education (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bó shì correctly.
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