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
- —老紳士old gentleman; elderly gentleman
- —理学士Bachelor of Science; BSc; BS
- —紳士風gentlemanly; gentlemanlike; in the manner of a gentleman
- —富士薊Fuji thistle; Cirsium purpuratum
- —航宙士astronavigator
- —富士派Fuji School (archaic name for the Nichiren Shoshu branch of Buddhism)
- —整備士mechanic
- —計量士certified measurer
- —修士号master's degree
- —女同士fellow women; between women; among women; woman-to-woman
- —男同士fellow men; between men; among men; man-to-man
- —士大夫Chinese scholar-bureaucrat; Chinese scholar-official
- —騎士団order of chivalry; chivalric order
- —大学士position at the imperial court in ancient China
- —女弁士female narrator in a silent movie theatre
- —赤富士red Fuji; Mount Fuji appearing red because of the sun's rays (typically in the early morning from late summer to early autumn)
- —都人士city dweller; townspeople
- —初富士gazing at Mount Fuji on New Year's day
- —準学士associate (of arts); associate's degree (in arts)
- —保育士nursery school teacher; childcare worker