秀才

xiùcai
  1. a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical)
  2. scholar
  3. skillful writer
  4. fine talent

CEDICT

Homographs

秀才 xiùcái

Entry Composition

1 秀 xiù
  1. (bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful
  2. (bound form) superior; excellent
  3. (loanword) show
  4. (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears
=2 才 cái
  1. ability; talent
  2. sb of a certain type
  3. a capable individual
  4. then and only then
  5. just now
  6. (before an expression of quantity) only
=2 才 cái
  1. (variant of 才 cái) just now
  2. (variant of 才 cái) (before an expression of quantity) only

Containing this entry

秀才不出門，全知天下事 xiùcaibùchūmén,quánzhītiānxiàshì a learned person need not leave his home to know what's going on in the world (idiom)
秀才不出門，能知天下事 xiùcaibùchūmén,néngzhītiānxiàshì a learned person need not leave his home to know what's going on in the world (idiom)
麴秀才 qūxiùcái
毛秀才 máoxiùcái

Related entries

儒 rú
  1. scholar
  2. Confucian
士人 shìrén scholar
學人 xuérén
  1. scholar
  2. learned person
學者 xuézhě scholar
这些学者以前在哪？

Where were these scholars at before this?

Source: Tatoeba

書生 shūshēng
  1. scholar
  2. intellectual
  3. egghead
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