Kanji1 / 10
師 kanji
expert, teacher, master, model, exemplar, army (incl. counter), war
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
シ
Kun readings
いくさ
Words with 師
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —三尺去って師の影を踏まずa student must never forget to honor their teacher (honour)
- —三人行けば必ず我が師有りsomething can be learned from anyone; if three walk together, I'll have a teacher
- —窮鳥懐に入れば猟師も殺さずeven the hunter will refrain from killing the bird that has flown to him for shelter
- —三尺下がって師の影を踏まずa student must never forget to honor their teacher (honour)
- —三歩下がって師の影を踏まずa student must never forget to honor their teacher (honour)
- —窮鳥懐に入れば猟師もこれを殺さずeven the hunter will refrain from killing the bird that has flown to him for shelter
- —醫師doctor; physician
- —師子lion; left-hand (stone) guardian lion-dog at a Shinto shrine
- —画師painter; artist; illustrator
- —占師diviner; fortune teller; soothsayer
- —野師stallkeeper (at a festival, fair, etc.); street vendor; street performer; peddler; hawker; huckster; faker
- —研師knife grinder (person); sword sharpener; polisher (of mirrors, swords, etc.)
- —釣師angler; Internet troll
- —立師sword fight scene choreographer
- —大師Senior Grand Tutor (senior-most of the top three civil positions of the Zhou dynasty); Grand Minister; Chancellor of the Realm
- —飲師heavy drinker; boozer; tippler
- —刷師woodblock printer
- —塗師lacquerer; lacquer craftsman; lacquer artist
- —灸師moxibustion practitioner; moxibustionist
- —染師dyer