先生
Kana: せんせい
teacher
Example sentence
あの人は学校の先生です。
あのひとはがっこうのせんせいです。
That person is a school teacher.
What 先生 means
先生 (せんせい) is a Japanese word meaning “teacher”. It belongs to the People & Family topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.