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HSK
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teacher

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

shi1 shī

Meaning


Primary

teacher

Mnemonic


[sh-] Shrek is in [1] front of the [-_] house on the lawn where he is being a 师 teacher. He sits on a 巾 towel that is on the 一 ground and all of the neighborhood kids surround him. He waves a 刂 saber around, telling the kids how to grow up to be an ugly ogre just like him. The kids follow the 师 teacher by covering themselves with mud and swinging around their own little toy 刂 sabers as well.

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