Kanji1 / 3
士 kanji
gentleman, scholar, samurai, samurai radical (no. 33)
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
シ
Kun readings
さむらい
Words with 士
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —策士tactician; schemer; intriguer; resourceful person
- —３士recruit (former rank in the JSDF)
- —士女men and women; the whole town
- —士長leading private (JSDF)
- —志士imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era; patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation
- —俊士genius
- —人士gentleman; well-bred man; well-educated man; people
- —二士private (JGSDF)
- —判士judge advocate
- —弁士lecturer; rhetorician; orator; narrator in Japanese silent cinema; film interpreter
- —名士celebrity; personage
- —烈士upright man; patriot; hero
- —藩士retainer of a daimyo
- —居士grhapati (layman; sometimes used as a posthumous suffix); private-sector scholar
- —文士man of letters; literary man
- —義士loyal retainer
- —道士Taoist; person of high morals; Buddhist monk; immortal mountain wizard; Taoist immortal
- —将士officers and men
- —壮士vigorous man; man in his prime; activist for the Freedom and People's Rights Movement (Meiji period); freelance political ruffian; hired intimidator (acting under the pretext of social justice)
- —高士man of noble character