| 船政学堂 |
Chuán zhèng Xué táng |
Fuzhou Naval College, a.k.a. Foochow Naval Dockyard School, set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty |
| 船 |
chuán |
variant of 船 |
| 船 |
chuán |
boat / vessel / ship / CL:条,艘,只 |
| 政 |
zhèng |
political / politics / government |
| 学 |
xué |
to learn / to study / to imitate / science / -ology |
| 学堂 |
xué táng |
college / school (old) |
| 堂 |
táng |
(main) hall / large room for a specific purpose / CL:间 / relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family / of the same clan / classifier for classes, lectures etc / classifier for sets of furniture |