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Skilled worker in Chinese

skilled worker · HSK 4

师傅 shī fu

  1. 师 shī teacher
  2. 傅 fù teacher

Counted with 位: 一位师傅 yí wèi shīfu

他跟着师傅学了三年手艺。 He learned the craft from his master for three years.

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How do you say skilled worker in Chinese?

Skilled worker in Chinese is 师傅 (shī fu).

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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