师 — teacher; master; expert
teacher; master; expert; model; army division; troops
- Pinyin
- shī · Shī
- Strokes
- 6
- HSK level
- HSK 1
- Handwriting
- recognition only
This character has more than one reading — shī, Shī — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.
How to write 师: 6 strokes
Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.
Words with 师 in the HSK syllabus: 13
Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.
- 老师lǎoshīteacherHSK 1
- 厨师chúshīcook; chefHSK 4
- 教师jiàoshīteacherHSK 4
- 律师lǜshīlawyerHSK 4
- 师傅shīfumaster; qualified workerHSK 4
- 师生shīshēngteachers and studentsHSK 4
- 工程师gōngchéngshīengineerHSK 5
- 大师dàshīgreat master; masterHSK 6
- 导师dǎoshītutor; teacher; academic advisorHSK 6
- 师父shīfuused for 師傅|师傅; master; qualified workerHSK 6
- 师范shīfànteacher-training; pedagogical; normalHSK 7–9
- 师长shīzhǎngmilitary division level commander; teacherHSK 7–9
- 师资shīzīqualified teacherHSK 7–9
Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.