漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
師: expert, teacher
Also: master, model, exemplar, army (incl. counter), war
JLPT N310 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
丨 and 巾 carry the meaning · 丿 is drawn in
10 strokes
Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
シshi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 師しteacher, master, mentor
- 師範しはんinstructor, teacher
- 師匠ししょうmaster, teacher
- 師弟していteacher and student
- 教師きょうしteacher
- 講師こうしlecturer
- 恩師おんしone's honored teacher
- 医師いしmedical doctor, physician
- 技師ぎしengineer, technician
- 美容師びようしbeautician
- 師事するしじするapprentice oneself [v.i.]
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 師走しわす12th month on lunar calendar
Also read いくさ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)𠂤 + 帀
Source: Wiktionary, 師 (rev. 94533103), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Fresh from the loom! This radical represents the soft, woven materials we use every day—from a simple "towel" to a grand "banner" carried into battle.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 师 · traditional, as in Japanese · shī
Japan keeps the traditional form 師; mainland China simplifies it to 师.
- Simplified
- 师 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 師 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shī most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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