老師
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Japanese [edit]
| Kanji in this term | |
| 老 | 師 |
Etymology [edit]
From Middle Chinese.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
老師 (hiragana ろうし, romaji rōshi, historical hiragana らうし)
- an elderly monk; a sage; an elderly teacher or master
- (from the way that 師 (shi) can also mean “a military group”) the exhaustion of military troops from fighting a protracted war
Mandarin [edit]
| simpl. | 老师 | |
|---|---|---|
| trad. | 老師 | |
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
老師 (traditional, Pinyin lǎoshī, simplified 老师)
Derived terms [edit]
Min Nan [edit]
| simpl. | 老师 | |
|---|---|---|
| trad. | 老師 | |
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: [ lau˨˩su˥˥ ]
Noun [edit]
Categories:
- Japanese terms written with two Han script characters
- Japanese terms spelled with 老
- Japanese terms spelled with 師
- Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese
- Japanese nouns
- Mandarin nouns in traditional script
- Mandarin nouns
- Chinese hanzi
- cmn:Beginning Mandarin in traditional script
- cmn:Education in traditional script
- Min Nan nouns in traditional script
- Min Nan nouns
