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老师

lǎo shī

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word Traditional 老師

老师 (lǎo shī) means "teacher". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.

What 老师 means

1. teacher

The characters in 老师

• 老lǎoprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of…
• 师shīteacher; master; expert

Example sentences

• 老师好！
  Hello teacher!
• 关老师！
  Teacher Guan!
• 老师好。
  Hello, teacher.
• 我是老师。
  I'm a teacher.
• 他是老师。
  He is a teacher.
• 老师教书。
  The teacher is teaching.

Words containing 老师

• 大体老师dà tǐ lǎo shīcadaver for dissection in training medical students
• 还给老师huán gěi lǎo shīto forget (everything one has learned)
• 托尼老师Tuō ní lǎo shī(neologism; slang) barber; hairdresser
• Tony老师t o n y lǎo shī(slang) hairdresser

Where 老师 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of School, Work and Study (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 1 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lǎo shī correctly.
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