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名士

míng shì

2-character word

What 名士 means

1. olda person of literary talent; a celebrity (esp. a distinguished literary person having no official post)

The characters in 名士

• 名míngname; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners)
• 士shìmember of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor

Example sentences

• 这名士兵痛苦地呻吟。
  Zhè míngshì bīng tòngkǔ de shēnyín.
  The soldier groaned with pain.

Sounds the same

Read míng shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 明示to state explicitly; to clearly indicate