| 南洋理工大学 |
Nán yáng Lǐ gōng Dà xué |
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| 南 |
Nán |
surname Nan |
| 南 |
nā |
used in 南无 / Taiwan pr. [na2] |
| 南 |
nán |
south |
| 南洋 |
Nán yáng |
Southeast Asia / South seas |
| 洋 |
yáng |
ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin |
| 理 |
lǐ |
texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up |
| 理工 |
lǐ gōng |
science and engineering as academic subjects |
| 理工大学 |
lǐ gōng dà xué |
University of Science and Engineering / also sometimes Institute of Technology |
| 工 |
gōng |
work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor |
| 大 |
dà |
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) |
| 大 |
dài |
see 大夫 |
| 大学 |
Dà xué |
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianism |
| 大学 |
dà xué |
university; college / CL:所 |
| 学 |
xué |
to learn / to study / to imitate / science / -ology |