社科 (shèkē): social science (abbreviation)

Meanings

1 social science (abbreviation)
2 social sciences

Characters

社

Examples

社科类的图书在书店占了一大片。

Shèkē lèi de túshū zài shūdiàn zhàn le yī dà piàn.

Social-science books take up a large section of the bookstore.

他在中国社科院工作。

Tā zài Zhōngguó Shèkēyuàn gōngzuò.

He works at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Tips

usage

Abbreviation of 社会科学 (shèhuì kēxué, 'social science'). Most often appears in compound names: 中国社科院 (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the country's top humanities/social-science research institute), 社科类图书 (social-science books), 社科基金 (social-science research funding).

memory

Like English 'soc sci' or 'social' — a clipped form. 社 = first character of 社会 (society), 科 = first character of 科学 (science). Two-character abbreviations of four-character compounds are everywhere in Chinese (e.g. 高铁 = 高速铁路, 央视 = 中央电视台).