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老師

老師

Chinese

 
old (of people); aged; venerable (person); outdated; experienced; (a prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity)
 
a division (milit.); teacher; master; expert; model
trad. (老師) 老 師
simp. (老师) 老 师

Noun

老師

  1. teacher   (Classifier: 個／个; 位; 名)
    我的老師給我很大壓力。 [MSC, trad.]
    我的老师给我很大压力。 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ de lǎoshī gěi wǒ hěn dà yālì. [Pinyin]
    My teacher puts me under a lot of pressure.

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Descendants

Sino-Xenic (老師):

References

  • “Entry #2712”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
  • Duffus, William, "teach" (p. 266) in English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow, English Presbyterian Mission Press, 1883.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
老 師
ろう
Grade: 4 		し
Grade: 5
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese compound 老師 ‎(lawX srij, literally “old teacher, old master”). Compare modern Mandarin traditional 老師 and simplified 老师 ‎(lǎoshī).

Pronunciation

Noun

老師 ‎(hiragana ろうし, romaji rōshi, historical hiragana らうし)

  1. an elderly monk; a sage; an elderly teacher or master
  2. (from the way that 師 ‎(shi) can also mean “a military group”) the exhaustion of military troops from fighting a protracted war

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja in this term
老 師

Noun

老師 • ‎(nosa) ‎(hangeul 노사)

  1. Hanja form? of 노사, “an elderly monk; a sage; an elderly teacher or master”.

Pronunciation

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