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What a Japanese person actually thinksReads as an occupational suffix waiting for its first half. Alone it's incomplete in the same way English '-ist' would be.
Meaning
- Literally
- master; teacher
- Actually
- A teacher or master. Mostly lives as a suffix denoting a licensed profession: 医師 (doctor), 美容師 (hairdresser), 調理師 (chef), 教師 (teacher).
Scores
Naturalness●●●●●
Rarely stands alone in modern Japanese.
Coolness●●●●●
Decent character. The fragment problem is what costs it.
Watch out
- mediumAlso, wearing 'MASTER' is a claim about your rank relative to other people — an odd thing to assert unprompted.
Get this instead
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師範
shihan
master instructor (in a martial art)If you actually hold the rank, this is the real title.
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道
michi / dō
the way; a disciplineSays you practise something without claiming to have mastered it.
On skin
師
Orientation: either
Brush.