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师资

shīzī

teaching staff; faculty resources

Teachers talk with students outside a school with red doors
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Characters in this word

师 shī

Strokes
6
Radical
巾 — cloth, curtain, handkerchief, towel
Made of
刂 knife 帀 to rotate, to revolve, to make a circuit
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
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资 zī

Strokes
10
Radical
贝 — sea shell
Made of
次 order, sequence 贝 sea shell
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
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Example phrases

  • 偏远地区教育质量长期受限于师资不足和培训机会有限。 Piānyuǎn dìqū jiàoyù zhìliàng chángqī shòuxiàn yú shīzī bùzú hé péixùn jīhuì yǒuxiàn. The quality of education in remote areas has long been constrained by insufficient teaching staff and limited training opportunities.
  • 这所大学师资力量雄厚,拥有多位知名教授。 Zhè suǒ dàxué shīzī lìliàng xiónghòu, yōngyǒu duō wèi zhīmíng jiàoshòu. This university has a strong teaching staff and many well-known professors.
  • 学校正在招聘新老师,以加强师资队伍。 Xuéxiào zhèngzài zhāopīn xīn lǎoshī, yǐ jiāqiáng shīzī duìwu. The school is hiring new teachers to strengthen its teaching staff.

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