shī

Traditional: 师

#5125 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

teacher; master; specialist (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 师

Examples

Teacher, I have a question.

She is a very famous lawyer.

Our teacher is very strict.

He is a famous teacher.

I studied under my master for three years.

师 (shī) is a bound morpheme for teachers and trained specialists, used in 老师 (lǎo shī) "teacher" and 律师 (lǜ shī) "lawyer".

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 师.

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This word is part of lesson 103.