先生
sĭng-săngsing1 sang1
1.mister; sir; gentleman
2.husband
3.An honorific for a person of virtue, learning, or ability (usually conferred on males).
4.(dated) Usually placed after a profession of fortune-telling, storytelling, face reading, feng shui, or something similar.
5.(dated) bookkeeper
6.scholar; intellectual; man of letters
7.Taoist priest
8.senior family member, especially one's father or elder brother
9.(literal, Classical) one who was born earlier
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mister; sir; gentleman
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Imported from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0): en.wiktionary.org/wiki/先生. Mandarin: xiānshēng,tl=y.
Related words
- 地理先生dî-lī-sĭng-năng
地理先生 dî-lī-sĭng-năng
fengshui master; geomancer
- 算命先生sáung-miâng sĭng-săng
算命先生 sáung-miâng sĭng-săng
fortune-teller
- 出生chók-sĕng
出生 chók-sĕng
- 1. to be born
- 2. (obsolete) to lay down one's own life, to give up one's own life
- 學生hŏk-sĕng
學生 hŏk-sĕng
- 1. student; pupil
- 2. disciple; follower
- 後生hâu-săng
後生 hâu-săng
- 1. young person; young generation
- 2. descendants
- 3. next life
- 4. young man
- and 2 more
- 書生cṳ̆-sĕng
書生 cṳ̆-sĕng
- 1. scholar; intellectual
- 2. pedantic scholar
- 永生īng-sĕng
永生 īng-sĕng
- 1. to live forever; to be immortal
- 2. (religion) eternal life; immortality
- 3. lifetime; all one's life; one's whole life
- 生分săng-hông
生分 săng-hông
- 1. to grow apart; to become estranged
- 2. estranged
- 3. strange; unfamiliar