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
院士 yuànshì
  1. scholar
  2. academician
  3. fellow (of an academy)
士 shì
  1. member of the senior ministerial class (old)
  2. scholar (old)
  3. bachelor
  4. honorific
  5. soldier
  6. noncommissioned officer
  7. specialist worker
上巴士吧。

Let's get on the bus.

Source: Tatoeba

士子 shìzǐ
  1. official
  2. scholar (old)
大方 dàfāng
  1. expert
  2. scholar
  3. mother earth
  4. a type of green tea
你太大方了。

You're too generous.

Source: Tatoeba

學子 xuézǐ
  1. (literary) student
  2. scholar
文士 wénshì
  1. literati
  2. scholar