Discipline in Chinese
discipline · HSK 5
学科
- 学 to study
- 科 branch of study
Counted with 门: 一门学科
数学是他最喜欢的学科。 Math is his favorite subject.
Other ways to say discipline
More words with 学 or 科
How do you say discipline in Chinese?
Discipline in Chinese is 学科 (xué kē). You can also say 纪律 (jì lǜ).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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