生徒

Chinese

		to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw	apprentice; disciple
simp. and trad. (生徒)		生	徒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shēngtú

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥ ㄊㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saang¹ tou⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shēngtú
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥ ㄊㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shengtú
    • Wade–Giles: shêng¹-tʻu²
    • Yale: shēng-tú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shengtwu
    • Palladius: шэнту (šɛntu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ tʰu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saang¹ tou⁴
    • Yale: sāang tòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saang¹ tou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sang¹ tou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːŋ⁵⁵ tʰou̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: sraeng du

Rime
Character	生	徒
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	庚 (109)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	I
Fanqie	所庚切	同都切
Baxter	sraeng	du
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠæŋ/	/duo/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚaŋ/	/duo/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃaŋ/	/do/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂaɨjŋ/	/dɔ/
Li Rong	/ʃɐŋ/	/do/
Wang Li	/ʃɐŋ/	/du/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʂɐŋ/	/dʱuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shēng	tú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sang1	tou4

Noun

生徒

1. (literary) pupil; student

Synonyms

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• 學員 / 学员 (xuéyuán) (especially one who studies outside the usual educational system)
• 學堂生 / 学堂生 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 學子 / 学子 (xuézǐ) (literary)
• 學徒 / 学徒 (xuétú) (literary)
• 學生 / 学生 (xuéshēng)
• 學生仔 / 学生仔 (Hakka, Xiamen Hokkien)
• 學生子 / 学生子 (Wu)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (生徒):

• → Japanese: 生(せい)徒(と) (seito) (see there for further descendants)
• → Korean: 생도(生徒) (saengdo)
• → Vietnamese: sinh đồ (生徒)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
生	徒
せい Grade: 1	と Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) せーと [séꜜètò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [se̞ːto̞]

Noun

生(せい)徒(と) • (seito) 

1. pupil, educatee, student (especially in junior high schools (中学校) or high schools (高校) in Japan)

Descendants

• → Amis: sito

See also

• 学生(がくせい) (gakusei): student, college student, university student
• 児童(じどう) (jidō): pupil

References

• “生徒”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
生	徒

Noun

生徒 • (saengdo) (hangeul 생도)

1. hanja form^? of 생도 (“pupil, student”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
生	徒

Noun

生徒

1. chữ Hán form of sinh đồ (“student”)