贡士 gòngshì successful national candidate Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 贡 貢 gòng to nominate (bound form) to recommend or select talented people for the imperial court during the civil service examination era士 shì noun scholar (bound form) scholar; intellectual; member of the educated class in ancient China, as in the phrase 士农工商 shìnónggōngshāng
