xiào​lián

examination subject

孝廉 xiào​lián
examination subject verb
The 'Filial and Incorrupt' civil service categories in the Han dynasty, which later became a single examination subject during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
successful candidate noun
A person who has passed the provincial-level imperial examination (juren) during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Frequency

Written text
0.198 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)