红学

紅學
hóngxué
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Redology, the study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber

Examples

HSK 4
Tā yánjiū hóngxué yǐjing sānshí duō nián le.
He has been studying Redology for more than thirty years.
HSK 6
Hú Shì shì xiàndài hóngxué de kāichuàngzhě zhīyī.
Hu Shi was one of the founders of modern Redology.

Tips

history
The name began as a late-Qing joke: a scholar said the classics, 经学, that he studied were missing one stroke and three curves. Take those out of 經 and what is left is 紅, the "red" of 红楼梦. A Redology scholar is a 红学家.

Stroke Order

红 hóng
学 xué