師 - Dong Chinese dictionary

shī

teacher

𠂤 and 帀 both represent the sound.

Components

duī

mound

師 and 𠂤 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

帀 Sound component

zā

to go round

師 and 帀 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.師 /*srij/, /*srij/
帀 /*[ts]ˤ[ə]p/

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

师 (師)

shī

teacher, master, specialist; multitude, troops; teacher; master; expert; model; army division; (old) troops; to dispatch troops

师 (師)

Shī

surname Shi

Most common words with 師

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	律师	lawyer
	老师	teacher
	师	teacher
	教师	teacher
	大师	master

Component uses

Meaning component in 3 characters (3 verified)

官遣𠳋

Sound component in 3 characters (1 verified)

獅篩螄

Remnant component in 3 characters (3 verified)

官遣𠳋

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*srij	srij	shī	army
*srij	srij	shī	master

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 70.9755% of movies

345th most common character in movies

333rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	10
Simplified	师
Unicode	U+5E2B
Shuowen	“師，二千五百人為師。从帀，从。，四帀眾意也。，古文師。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

季旭昇《說文新證》p.500-501

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