博士
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A doctorate (PhD) or a person who holds one. After a surname it is a title: 王博士, 'Dr Wang'.
Học vị tiến sĩ hoặc người có học vị đó. Đặt sau họ thì thành danh xưng: 王博士 là “tiến sĩ Vương”.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 061 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): etymology of “bác sĩ” = 博士 · Vietnamese false friend: Idiomer entry “bác sĩ” (bac-si). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “博士” mean?
A doctorate (PhD) or a person who holds one. After a surname it is a title: 王博士, 'Dr Wang'. Literally: broadly learned scholar
Is “博士” formal or informal?
博士 is generally neutral.