科学技术是第一生产力

science and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] introducing the Four Modernizations 四個現代化|四个现代化[si4 ge5 xian4 dai4 hua4])

branch of study / administrative section / division / field / branch / stage directions / family (taxonomy) / rules / laws / to mete out (punishment) / to levy (taxes etc) / to fine sb / CL:個|个[ge4]

science / scientific knowledge / scientific / rational / CL:門|门[men2],個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]

to learn / to study / to imitate / science / -ology

skill

science and technology

technology / technique / skill / CL:門|门[men2],種|种[zhong3],項|项[xiang4]

technology; technique; skill / CL:門|门[men2],種|种[zhong3],項|项[xiang4]

method / technique

various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea

variant of 是[shi4] / (used in given names)

to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion)

(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just

first / number one / primary

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

all one's life; throughout one's life

to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student

to produce / to manufacture / to give birth to a child

to produce; to manufacture / to give birth to a child

to give birth / to reproduce / to produce / product / resource / estate / property

production capability / productive force / productivity

power / force / strength / ability / strenuously