敦煌学

敦煌學

Dūnhuángxué

noun

Meanings

1 Dunhuang studies, the study of the cave art and manuscripts of Dunhuang

Characters

Dun, from the place name Dunhuang

-huang, from the place name Dunhuang

Examples

HSK 4

她在大学研究敦煌学。

Tā zài dàxué yánjiū Dūnhuángxué.

She works on Dunhuang studies at a university.

HSK 7-9

藏经洞的发现催生了敦煌学这门国际性的学问。

Cángjīngdòng de fāxiàn cuīshēng le Dūnhuángxué zhè mén guójìxìng de xuéwen.

The discovery of the Library Cave gave rise to Dunhuang studies, a field with scholars all over the world.

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history

The historian 陈寅恪 used the name in 1930. Since many of the manuscripts had been carried off to London, Paris, St Petersburg and Japan, a saying of the 1980s, 敦煌在中国，敦煌学在日本 ('Dunhuang is in China, Dunhuang studies are in Japan'), stung Chinese scholars into building the field up at home.

usage

The suffix 学 names a field of study, like '-ology': 红学 is the study of 红楼梦, and 汉学 is sinology.

Stroke Order

敦 dūn

煌 huáng

学 xué