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院士

yuàn shì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

院士 (yuàn shì) means "scholar; academician; fellow (of an academy)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 院士 means

1. scholar
2. academician
3. fellow (of an academy)

The characters in 院士

• 院yuàncourtyard; institution
• 士shìmember of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor

Words containing 院士

• 学会院士xué huì yuàn shìacademician; fellow of academy
• 通讯院士tōng xùn yuàn shìcorresponding member (of an academy); junior academician

Sounds the same

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

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