Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- shì
English
- official
- to serve as an official
- serve government
- an official
- the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将[jiang4]
- to become a government officer
粵語
- 做官；返政府工
As a component in
Words containing 仕
- 仕途si6 tou4
official career (formal)
- 出仕ceot1 si6
to take up an official post
- 仕進si6 zeon3
become more hard-working and positive in order to achieve something
- 嬉皮仕hei1 pei4 si6
a hippie (loanword) [written and colloquial]
- 仕宦si6 waan6
(literary) to serve as an official
- 仕女si6 neoi5
court lady
- 入仕jap6 si6
(literary) to become an official
- 致仕zi3 si6
to retire from a government post (old)
- 臣仕san4 si6
- 仕紳si6 san1
- 仕紳化si6 san1 faa3
to undergo gentrification; to gentrify
- 愛馬仕oi3 maa5 si6
Hermès (brand)
- 卡仕達kaa1 si6 daat6
(loanword) custard
- 鄭則仕zeng6 zak1 si6
Kent Cheng Jak-si, a Hong Kong actor
- 自由騎仕zi6 jau4 ke4 si6
- 學而優則仕hok6 ji4 jau1 zak1 si6
one who is successful in one's studies, can become an official (idiom)