庶吉士
Chinese
ordinary | lucky; Jilin Province (abbrev.) | scholar; warrior; knight | ||
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simp. and trad. (庶吉士) |
庶 | 吉 | 士 |
Etymology
Based on a passage from the Book of Documents:
- 大都小伯、藝人、表臣百司、太史、尹伯,庶常吉士。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Book of Documents, circa 7th – 4th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Dàdū xiǎo bó, yìrén, biǎochén bǎisī, tàishǐ, yǐnbó, shù cháng jí shì. [Pinyin]
- They had their governors of the larger and smaller cities assigned in the royal domain to the nobles; their men of arts; their overseers whose offices were beyond the court; their grand historiographers; and their heads of departments—all good men of constant virtue.
大都小伯、艺人、表臣百司、太史、尹伯,庶常吉士。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ ㄐㄧˊ ㄕˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: shùjíshìh
- Wade–Giles: shu4-chi2-shih4
- Yale: shù-jí-shr̀
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuhjyishyh
- Palladius: шуцзиши (šucziši)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʂu⁵¹ t͡ɕi³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: syu3 gat1 si6
- Yale: syu gāt sih
- Cantonese Pinyin: sy3 gat7 si6
- Guangdong Romanization: xu3 ged1 xi6
- Sinological IPA (key): /syː³³ kɐt̚⁵ siː²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
(deprecated template usage) 庶吉士
- (historical) Hanlin bachelor; a scholastic title during the Ming and Qing dynasties of China granted to the jinshi (進士), restricted to those in the Hanlin Academy since the Yongle era