gé​wù

investigate things

格物 gé​wù
investigate things noun
to study the underlying principles of the world, especially in Neo-Confucian rational learning (理学 Lǐ​xué)
natural sciences
a historical term used during the late Qing dynasty to refer to Western natural sciences

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