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学 means to learn or study, and as a noun it means learning or a branch of knowledge, as in 数学 (mathematics). The character is built from 子 (child) at the bottom and a reduced top element that in the traditional form 學 showed hands passing on knowledge under a roof, which is why a child sits at the base of the modern simplified character. Its radical is 子, and it is one of the most common characters in everyday Chinese. It appears in words such as 学生 (student), 学校 (school), and 大学 (university), and it can also follow a subject to name a field of study, as in 化学 (chemistry).