士

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

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[edit] Han character

士 (radical 33 士+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 十一 (JM), four-corner 4010₀, composition ⿱十一)

1. scholar, gentleman
2. soldier, non-commissioned officer
3. A certain Chinese chess piece

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 242, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5638
• Dae Jaweon: page 482, character 38
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 416, character 1
• Unihan data for U+58EB

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士 (Yale si6)

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士 (grade 4 kanji)

1. samurai
2. a person who has a good social background and good manners

[edit] Readings

• On: し (shi), じ (ji)
• Kun: さむらい (samurai), つかさ (tsukasa)

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• (samurai):
  • 武士 (bushi), “‘samurai’”)
  • 戦士 (せんし, senshi), “‘soldier, warrior’”)
  • 騎士 (きし, kishi): knight
• (person who has a good social background):
  • 会計士 (かいけいし, kaikei-shi)
  • 博士 (hakase), “‘doctor (degree)’”)
    • 博士論文 (hakase ronbun), “‘doctoral thesis’”)

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士 (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa)

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士 (pinyin shì (shi4), Wade-Giles shih⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 戰士
• 战士
• 爵士

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[edit] Middle Chinese

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士 (*jrhiə̌)

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[edit] Vietnamese

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士 (sĩ, sãi, sõi, sỡi)