庶吉士
Chinese
ordinary | lucky; Jilin Province (abbrev.) | scholar; warrior; knight | ||
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simp. and trad. (庶吉士) |
庶 | 吉 | 士 |
Etymology
Based on a passage from the Book of Documents:
- 大都小伯、藝人、表臣百司、太史、尹伯,庶常吉士。 [Classical Chinese, trad.][▼ expand/hide]
- From: The Book of Documents, circa 7th – 4th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Dàdū xiǎo bó, yìrén, biǎochén bǎisī, tàishǐ, yǐnbó, shù cháng jí shì. [Pinyin]
- They had their governors of the larger and smaller cities assigned in the royal domain to the nobles; their men of arts; their overseers whose offices were beyond the court; their grand historiographers; and their heads of departments—all good men of constant virtue.
大都小伯、艺人、表臣百司、太史、尹伯,庶常吉士。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Pronunciation
Noun
庶吉士
- (historical) Hanlin bachelor; a scholastic title during the Ming and Qing dynasties of China granted to the jinshi (進士), restricted to those in the Hanlin Academy since the Yongle era
Synonyms
- 庶常
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