Master in Chinese
master (of a trade) · HSK 4
师傅
- 师 teacher
- 傅 teacher
Counted with 位: 一位师傅
他跟着师傅学了三年手艺。 He learned the craft from his master for three years.
Other ways to say master
More words with 师 or 傅
How do you say master in Chinese?
Master in Chinese is 师傅 (shī fu). You can also say 掌握 (zhǎng wò), 主人 (zhǔ ren), 大师 (dà shī), 高手 (gāo shǒu).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.