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土司

tǔ sī

2-character word

What 土司 means

1. sliced bread (loanword from "toast")
2. government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties

The characters in 土司

• 土tǔearth; dust; clay
• 司sīto take charge of; to manage; department (under a ministry)

Example sentences

• 我的早餐总是咖啡和土司。
  I always have coffee and toast for breakfast.

Sounds the same

Read tǔ sī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 吐司sliced bread (loanword from "toast")
• 吐丝(of spiders, caterpillars, silkworms etc) to extrude silk