xiucaiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ʃjoʊˈtsaɪ/

名詞

xiucai (複数形 xiucai)

1. (historical) In ancient China, a scholar who has passed the entry-level examination to study at a college.

   Synonym: shengyuan

   • [1992, Chang, Chun-shu; Hsueh-lun Chang, “Crisis and Revolution in the Ming-Ch'ing Intellectual World: Li Yü's World in Historical Perspective”, in Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China: Society, Culture, and Modernity in Li Yü's World‎^[1], Paperback edition, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, published 1998, →ISBN, LCCN 91-25205, OCLC 39336262, pages 285-286:

     The author of The Compendium of Materia Medica was Li Shih-chen (1518-93), a pioneering scholar in the field of medicinal research in the late Ming. A native of Ch’i-chou in Hukuang (modern Ch’i-ch’un in Hupei), Li Shih-chen achieved the first-degree hsiu-ts'ai in 1531, but gave up obtaining the second-degree chü-jen after three unsuccessful attempts between 1534 and 1540.]