老师老師 in English

Measure word

• 位 wèi position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2... attested
• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested

Character breakdown

• 老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a pers…
• 师師 shī teacher

Stroke order

How it used to be written

老

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 西晉
• See all 22 forms

师

These are the forms of 師, the traditional character: 师 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 18 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 上课时她是我们的老师，下课以后是我们的朋友，而且是很好的朋友。

  In class she's our teacher; after class she's our friend, and a good friend too.

• 下周我们要去看望我们的老师。

  We will visit our teacher next week.

• 不仅他们，连我也被老师罚了。

  Not only they but also I was scolded by the teacher.

• 他们不是老师。

  They are not teachers.

• 他们好不容易才回答了他们老师的问题。

  They answered their teacher's question with difficulty.

• 他们被老师训斥了。

  They were scolded by the teacher.

• 他们都是好老师。

  All of them are good teachers.

• 他六歲的时候学会了用打字机，便和老师说他不用学执笔写字了。

  At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.

All example sentences with 老师