師

See also: 师 and 帥

§Translingual

§Han character

師 (radical 50 巾+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹口一中月 (HRMLB), four-corner 2172₇, composition ⿰𠂤帀)

1. teacher, master, specialist
2. multitude, troops
3. seventh hexagram of the I Ching
4. a surname

§Descendants

• 师

§References

• KangXi: page 331, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8916
• Dae Jaweon: page 637, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 740, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5E2B

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§Chinese

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trad.		師
simp.		师

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shī, Shī (shi¹, Shi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕ, ㄕ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹
• Min Nan (POJ): sai / su

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shī
    • Zhuyin: ㄕ
    • Wade-Giles: shih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shy
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: Shī
    • Zhuyin: ㄕ
    • Wade-Giles: shih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shy
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹
    • Yale: sī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹
    • IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sai / su
    • Tâi-lô: sai / su
    • IPA (Taipei): /saɪ⁴⁴/, /su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /saɪ³⁴/, /su³⁴/
  • Note: sai - vernacular, su - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (師, reconstructed)
Character (師), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 生 (21) Final: 脂 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 疏夷切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʃiɪ/	/ʂi/	/ʃi/	/ʃi/	/ʂi/	/ʃi/	/ʃjɪ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (師, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
師								shī								‹ srij ›								/*srij/								army
師								shī								‹ srij ›								/*srij/								master
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
師					11433					師					脂					2					師					/*sri/

§Proper noun

師

1. a Chinese surname

§Compounds

• 師奶

§References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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§Japanese

§Kanji

師

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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§Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: みやこ (miyako), いくさ (ikusa), おさ (osa)

§Compounds

• 師匠 (ししょう) (shishō): master
• 看護師 (かんごし) (kangoshi): nurse

§Synonyms

• 师
• 人, 者

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§Korean

§Hanja

師 (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

師 (sư)

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