士
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member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor; honorific; soldier; noncommissioned officer; specialist worker
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 士 itself
- Structure
- Single component 独体
- Traditional
- 士
- Common rank
- #222
- Unicode
- U+58EB
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
soldier · Heisig RSH #334
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 士
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大不里士 | Tabriz city in northwest Iran, capital of Iranian East Azerbaijan | |
| 大力士 | strong man; Hercules | |
| 法学士 | Bachelor of Laws; Legum Baccalaureus | |
| 文学士 | Bachelor of Arts; B.A.; BA; A.B.; Artium Baccalaureus | |
| 亚里士多德 | Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher | |
| 中巴士 | minibus | |
| 神学士 | student of theology; Bachelor of Divinity; Taleban (Farsi: student) | |
| 文科学士 | Bachelor of Arts B.A. | |
| 士子 | official; scholar (old) | |
| 人士 | person; figure; public figure | |
| 士人 | scholar | |
| 巴士拉 | Basra (city in Iraq) | |
| 理科学士 | Bachelor of Science B.Sc. | |
| 学士 | bachelor's degree; person holding a university degree | |
| 亚罗士打 | Alor Star city, capital of Kedah state in northwest Malaysia | |
| 士林区 | Shilin or Shihlin District of Taipei City 臺北市|台北市[Tai2 bei3 Shi4], Taiwan | |
| 安士 | (HK) (loanword) ounce | |
| 会士 | member of religious order; penitent; frater; translation of French agregé (holder of teach… | |
| 士气 | morale | |
| 学士学位 | bachelor's degree |
Sound family
These characters use 士 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 士 sound part | scholar, gentleman; soldier | |
| 仕 | official; to serve in the government | |
| 悫 | modest; sincere |