老師

Chinese

 
old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)
 
a division (milit.); teacher; master; expert; model
trad. (老師) 老 師
simp. (老师) 老 师

Pronunciation

Note: lao2 se1 - Chaozhou.

Noun

老師

  1. teacher (Classifier: 個／个; 位; 名)
    我的老師給我很大壓力。 [MSC, trad.]
    我的老师给我很大压力。 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ de lǎoshī gěi wǒ hěn dà yālì. [Pinyin]
    My teacher puts me under a lot of pressure.
  2. a polite term of address for an adult

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 老師 (“teacher”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 師
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 教師
Mandarin Beijing 老師
Taiwan 老師
Jinan 老師、先生
Xi'an 老師、先生
Wuhan 老師、教師
Chengdu 老師、先生
Yangzhou 教師、先生、老師
Hefei 教師、老師、先生
Cantonese Guangzhou 老師、先生
Hong Kong 老師、先生、阿Sir male、搣匙 female
Taishan 老師、先生
Yangjiang 老師、先生
Gan Nanchang 老師、先生
Hakka Meixian 老師、先生
Jin Taiyuan 老師、先生
Min Bei Jian'ou 老師、先生
Min Dong Fuzhou 先生、老師
Min Nan Xiamen 先生、老師
Quanzhou 先生、老師
Zhangzhou 先生、老師、教學仔、教冊仔
Taipei 先生、老師
Kaohsiung 先生、老師
Tainan 先生、老師
Taichung 先生、老師
Hsinchu 先生
Lukang 先生、老師
Sanxia 先生、老師
Yilan 先生、老師
Kinmen 先生
Magong 先生
Penang 先生、老師
Wu Shanghai 老師、教師、教書先生
Suzhou 教師、教書先生
Wenzhou 教師、教書先生、先生
Xiang Changsha 老師、教書先生
Shuangfeng 老師、教書先生

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (老師):
  • Japanese: 老 (ろう)師 (し) (rōshi)
  • Korean: 노사 (老師, nosa)
  • Vietnamese: lão sư (老師)

Others:

  • → Bouyei: laojsiy
  • → Zhuang: lauxsae

References

  • “Entry #2712”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
  • Duffus, William, “teach” (p. 266) in English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow, English Presbyterian Mission Press, 1883.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
老 師
ろう
Grade: 4		 し
Grade: 5
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese compound 老師 (lawX srij, literally “old teacher, old master”). Compare modern Mandarin 老師／老师.

Pronunciation

Noun

老師 (hiragana ろうし, rōmaji rōshi, historical hiragana らうし)

  1. an elderly monk; a sage; an elderly teacher or master
  2. (from the way that 師 (shi) can also mean “a military group”) the exhaustion of military troops from fighting a protracted war

References

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

Korean

Hanja in this term
老師

Noun

老師 • (nosa) (hangeul 노사)

  1. Hanja form? of 노사 (“an elderly monk; a sage; an elderly teacher or master”).
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