仕
shì
Pinyin

Definition

仕
 - 
shì
  1. to serve as an official
  2. an official
  3. the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将[jiàng]

Character Decomposition

Compounds (1)

茌
Chí
  1. 1 name of a district in Shandong

Related Words (6)

仕途
shì tú
  1. 1 official career (formal)
仕女
shì nǚ
  1. 1 court lady
  2. 2 palace maid
  3. 3 traditional painting of beautiful women
爱马仕
Ài mǎ shì
  1. 1 Hermès (brand)
仕
shì
  1. 1 to serve as an official
  2. 2 an official
  3. 3 the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将[jiàng]
学而优则仕
xué ér yōu zé shì
  1. 1 one who is successful in one's studies, can become an official (idiom)

Idioms (1)

学而优则仕
xué ér yōu zé shì
  1. 1 one who is successful in one's studies, can become an official (idiom)

Sample Sentences

每天在值晚班准备打烊的时候，总会有一位女孩儿来买杯热拿铁外带。女孩儿的容貌挺漂亮，看上去气质也好，就是穿着打扮比较特别。2014年夏天的杭州那样炎热，她还是时常穿着一件复古风格的外套，看着有点儿像30年代的上海仕女穿越到现代的感觉。
měitiān zài zhí wǎn bān zhǔnbèi dǎyàng de shíhou ，zǒng huì yǒu yī wèi nǚháiēr lái mǎi bēi rè nátiě wàidài 。nǚháiēr de róngmào tǐng piàoliang ，kànshangqu qìzhì yě hǎo ，jiùshì chuānzhuódǎbàn bǐjiào tèbié 。èrlíngyīsì nián xiàtiān de Hángzhōu nàyàng yánrè ，tā háishi shícháng chuānzhuó yī jiàn fùgǔ fēnggé de wàitào ，kàn zhe yǒudiǎnr xiàng sānlíng niándài de Shànghǎi shìnǚ chuānyuè dào xiàndài de gǎnjué 。
There was always a girl who came to the shop and ordered a cup of latte to go when QinYu was working the night shift and was about to close. She had quite a pretty face and she looked elegant, although her outfit was somehow special. In 2014, the summer in Hangzhou was pretty hot, but she’s still wearing the vintage style jacket all the time. She looked a bit like a Shanghai lady in the 1930s, traveling to the present.
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有句话说学而优则仕现在呢，就叫做【学而优则商】。
yǒujùhuàshuō xuééryōuzéshì xiànzài ne ，jiù jiàozuò 【xuééryōuzéshì 】。
There's a saying "He who excels in academia should serve as an official", well now, its "He who excels in academia should serve in business".
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话说回来，李白要是仕途顺利，也许就写不出那么多伟大的诗篇了。
huàshuōhuílai ，Lǐ Bái yàoshì shìtú shùnlì ，yěxǔ jiù xiě bù chū nàme duō wěidà de shīpiān le 。
To return to what we were saying before, if Li Bai had had a successful political career, then perhaps he wouldn't have written so many great poems.
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