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Professor in Chinese

professor · HSK 4

教授 jiào shòu

  1. 教 jiāo to teach
  2. 授 shòu to award

Counted with 位: 一位教授 yí wèi jiàoshòu

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How do you say professor in Chinese?

Professor in Chinese is 教授 (jiào shòu).

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The CC-CEDICT 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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