Meanings
Noun
1. teacher; master; one's mentor
Noun
Suffix
2. religious leader
Suffix
3. specialist
Archaic
Noun
4. five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (203 in total)
lion; left-hand guardian dog at a Shinto shrine
engineer; technician
teacher (to whom one owes a debt of gratitude); mentor; one's former teacher
Examples (3 in total)
I'm a locksmith.
She regards him as her master.
A good craftsman takes pride in his work.