| 莱斯大学 | Lái sī Dà xué | Rice University (Houston, Texas) | 
| 莱 | lái | name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc) / Chenopodium album | 
| 斯 | Sī | Slovakia / Slovak / abbr. for 斯洛伐克 | 
| 斯 | sī | (phonetic) / this | 
| 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 |