門生

See also: 门生

Chinese

		opening; door; gate opening; door; gate; doorway; gateway; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; (taxonomy) phylum or division	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
trad. (門生)		門	生
simp. (门生)		门	生

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ménshēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄣˊ ㄕㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mun⁴ sang¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mùn-sên
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bûn-seng / bûn-sng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ménshēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄣˊ ㄕㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ménsheng
    • Wade–Giles: mên²-shêng¹
    • Yale: mén-shēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mensheng
    • Palladius: мэньшэн (mɛnʹšɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mən³⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mun⁴ sang¹
    • Yale: mùhn sāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mun⁴ sang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mun⁴ seng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːn²¹ sɐŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mùn-sên
    • Hakka Romanization System: munˇ sen´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mun² sen¹
    • Sinological IPA: /mun¹¹ sen²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn-seng
    • Tâi-lô: bûn-sing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bunsefng
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun²³⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun¹³⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bun²⁴⁻¹¹ siɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bun²⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn-sng
    • Tâi-lô: bûn-sng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bunsngf
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bun²⁴⁻²² sŋ̍³³/

Noun

門生

1. (literary) student; disciple; pupil; follower
2. (dated) your student; I; me (especially used before the chief examiner by a successful candidate in the imperial examination)

Synonyms

• (disciple):

• 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 (túdì)
• 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)