师傅

Pinyin: shīfu

master; qualified worker; respectful form of address for older men

Example sentence

师傅,方向反了,我要去东边,你怎么往西边开?

Shīfu, fāngxiàng fǎn le, wǒ yào qù dōngbian, nǐ zěnme wǎng xībiān kāi?

Driver, you're driving in the opposite direction. I want to go east. Why are you driving west?

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What 师傅 means

师傅 (shīfu) is a Chinese word meaning “master; qualified worker; respectful form of address for older men”. It appears in the HSK 4 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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