教授

See also: 敎授

Chinese

religion; teaching; teach
 
to teach; to instruct; to award; to give
simp. and trad.
(教授)

Etymology

Sense "to teach; to instruct" attestable in pre-Qin texts and still used in modern Chinese. Sense of "professor" is wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese  (きょう) (じゅ) (kyōju).

Pronunciation


Noun

教授

  1. professor
    盧卡斯數學教授席位 [MSC, trad.]
    卢卡斯数学教授席位 [MSC, simp.]
    lúkǎsī shùxué jiàoshòu xíwèi [Pinyin]
    Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

See also

Verb

教授

  1. to teach; to instruct

Derived terms


Japanese

Kanji in this term
きょう
Grade: 2
じゅ
Grade: 5
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

教授 (hiragana きょうじゅ, rōmaji kyōju)

  1. professor
  2. instruction, teaching

Synonyms

  • プロフェッサー (purofessā)

Verb

教授する (transitive, hiragana きょうじゅする, rōmaji kyōju suru)

  1. to instruct, to teach

Conjugation

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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