師

Meaning

師 centers on a person who leads or serves as a standard: an expert, teacher, or master who models correct behavior, and by extension a military leader or army unit.

• 教師きょうし
  N3

  teacher; instructor

• 医師いし
  N3

  doctor; physician

• 講師こうし
  N2

  speaker; lecturer

• 師匠ししょう
  N1

  master; teacher

• 牧師ぼくし
  N1

  pastor; minister; clergyman; reverend

• 漁師りょうし
  N2

  fisherman

• 薬剤師やくざいし
  N1

  pharmacist; chemist

• 占い師うらないし
  N1

  diviner; fortune teller; soothsayer

• 技師ぎし
  N3

  engineer; technician

• 師団しだん

  (army) division

• 師範しはん

  instructor (esp. of martial or traditional arts); teacher; master; coach

• 法師ほうし

  Buddhist priest; bonze

• 宣教師せんきょうし

  missionary

• 恩師おんし
  N1

  teacher (to whom one owes a debt of gratitude); mentor; one's former teacher

• 師事しじ

  studying under; looking up to; apprenticing oneself to

• 猟師りょうし

  hunter; huntsman

• 師弟してい
  N1

  teacher and student

• 大師だいし

  great teacher (i.e. a buddha, bodhisattva or high monk, esp. Kobo Daishi)

• 師走しわす
  N1

  twelfth month (esp. of the lunar calendar); December

• 医師会いしかい

  medical association

• 歯科医師しかいし

  dentist

• 家庭教師かていきょうし

  (home) tutor; private tutor; private teacher

• 美容師びようし
  N3

  beautician; cosmetician; hairdresser; hair stylist

• 詐欺師さぎし

  swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man

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