Teacher in Chinese
teacher · HSK 1
老师
- 老 old
- 师 teacher
Counted with 位: 一位老师
我们的老师很年轻。 Our teacher is very young.
Other ways to say teacher
More words with 老 or 师
How do you say teacher in Chinese?
Teacher in Chinese is 老师 (lǎo shī). You can also say 教师 (jiào shī), 师父 (shī fu), 先生 (xiān sheng), 导师 (dǎo shī).
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.