科学技术是第一生产力

Traditional form:

科學技術是第一生產力

Pinyin (reading):

kēxuéjìshùshìdìyīshēngchǎnlì

Definitions:

• science and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平／邓小平 ( Dèng Xiǎopíng) introducing the Four Modernizations 四個現代化／四个现代化 (sìgexiàndàihuà))

Characters:

• 科 - section, department; field, branch; science
• 学 - learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology
• 技 - ability, talent; skill, technique
• 术 - skill, art; method, technique; trick
• 是 - to be; indeed, right, yes; okay
• 第 - sequence, number; grade, degree; particle prefacing an ordinal
• 一 - one; a, an; alone
• 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
• 产 - to give birth, to bring forth, to produce
• 力 - strength, power; capability, influence

Traditional characters:

• 科 - section, department; field, branch; science
• 學 - learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology
• 技 - ability, talent; skill, technique
• 術 - skill, art; method, technique; trick
• 是 - to be; indeed, right, yes; okay
• 第 - sequence, number; grade, degree; particle prefacing an ordinal
• 一 - one; a, an; alone
• 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
• 產 - to give birth, to bring forth, to produce
• 力 - strength, power; capability, influence