侍じ医い

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い

Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 100,000

Meanings

Historical term for a doctor serving the imperial court or a shogunate. In modern contexts, may refer to the current Imperial Household Agency physicians.

江え戸ど時じ代だい、侍じ医いは将しょう軍ぐんの健けん康こうを管かん理りした。
In the Edo period, court physicians managed the shogun's health.
宮く内ない庁ちょうの侍じ医いが天皇てんのう陛へい下かの診しん察さつにあたる。
The Imperial Household Agency's court physicians attend to His Majesty the Emperor.

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Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉の侍じ医いを務つとめるto serve as someone's court physician
その医い師しは長なが年ねん天皇てんのうの侍じ医いを務つとめた。
That doctor served as the Emperor's physician for many years.
〈人ひと〉の侍じ医いになるto become someone's court physician
彼かれは若わかくして皇こう室しつの侍じ医いになった。
He became a physician to the imperial household at a young age.

Kanji

侍waiter, samurai, wait upon
医doctor, medicine

Related words

医い師しN3
医師 is the general word for any medical doctor, while 侍医 specifically means a physician serving the imperial court or shogunate.
主しゅ治じ医い
主治医 is the personal doctor in charge of any patient's care, whereas 侍医 is a historical or institutional post tied to the court.
御ご典てん医い
御典医 refers specifically to a shogunate-era physician, while 侍医 more broadly covers court or imperial physicians of any era.

Don't confuse with

侍じ女じょ
侍女 shares the kanji 侍 with 侍医 but means a lady-in-waiting or maidservant, not a physician.

Written forms

侍じ医いUsage65%
Standard kanji spelling for 'court physician'.
じいUsage35%

Etymology

Compound of 侍 (じ, 'to serve a noble') and 医 (い, 'physician'). The reading じい is a straightforward combination of the on'yomi readings.