徒弟

Chinese

		apprentice; disciple	younger brother
simp. and trad. (徒弟)		徒	弟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): túdì

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˊ ㄉㄧˋ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): tu² di⁴

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou⁴ dai^6-2

• Gan (Wiktionary): tu² ti
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thù-thi
• Jin (Wiktionary): tu¹ di³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tô͘-tě / tô͘-tē

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tu⁵ di⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: túdì → túdi (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˊ ㄉㄧˋ → ㄊㄨˊ ˙ㄉㄧ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: túdi̊
    • Wade–Giles: tʻu²-ti⁵
    • Yale: tú-di
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twu.dih
    • Palladius: туди (tudi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu³⁵ ti⁵¹/ → /tʰu³⁵ d̥i³/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: tu² di⁴
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: tudi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu²¹ ti²¹³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou⁴ dai^6-2
    • Yale: tòuh dái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou⁴ dai^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou⁴ dei^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯²¹ tɐi̯²²⁻³⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: tu² ti
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu²⁴ tʰi²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thù-thi
    • Hakka Romanization System: tuˇ ti
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tu² ti⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰu¹¹ tʰi⁵⁵/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: tu¹ di³
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /tʰxu¹¹ ti⁴⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-tě
    • Tâi-lô: tôo-tě
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² te²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-tē
    • Tâi-lô: tôo-tē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: do'de
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² te²²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²³⁻³³ te³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔ¹³⁻²² te²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ te³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tu⁵ di⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thû tĭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu⁵⁵⁻¹¹ ti³⁵/

Noun

徒弟

1. follower; apprentice; disciple

   收徒弟  ―  shōu túdì  ―  to take on an apprentice

Synonyms

• 學師仔／学师仔 (hok⁶ si¹ zai²) (Cantonese)
• 學徒／学徒 (xuétú)
• 學徒工／学徒工 (xuétúgōng)
• 學生／学生 (xuéshēng)
• 師仔／师仔 (Hokkien, Taishanese)
• 師仔工／师仔工 (Hokkien)
• 師哥／师哥 (Longyan Min)
• 師囝／师囝 (Teochew)
• 弟子 (dìzǐ)
• 徒工 (túgōng)
• 徒弟伢子 (dou² di⁴ nga² zr) (Xiang)
• 徒弟娃兒／徒弟娃儿 (tu² di⁴ war²) (Sichuanese)
• 門人／门人 (ménrén)
• 門徒／门徒 (méntú)
• 門生／门生 (ménshēng) (literary)

 

Derived terms

• 上色徒弟
• 上首徒弟
• 帶徒弟／带徒弟
• 徒弟伢子
• 徒弟娃兒／徒弟娃儿

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (徒弟):

• → Japanese: 徒(と)弟(てい) (totei)
• → Korean: 도제(徒弟) (doje)
• → Vietnamese: đồ đệ (徒弟)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
徒	弟
と Grade: 4	てい Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [to̞te̞ː]

Noun

徒(と)弟(てい) • (totei) 

1. apprentice