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Translation

shì = sh + Ø4: member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker

Mnemonic

Sherlock Holmes (sh) is meeting the bachelor (士) in the bathroom of the space station (Ø4). Sherlock Holmes is playing a flute (一) for him, and the bachelor is wearing a huge cross (十) around his neck.

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士 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
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Characters with 士 as component

long life / old age / age / life / birthday / funerary / a surname
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lucky / giga- (meaning billion or 10^9) / surname Ji / abbr. for Jilin Province 吉林省[Ji2 lin2 Sheng3]
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aspiration / ambition / the will
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Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi, the PRC's second most numerous ethnic group
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section / paragraph / funds / CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4] / classifier for versions or models (of a product)
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component in Chinese characters, occurring in 青, 毒, 素 etc / see also 青字頭|青字头[qing1 zi4 tou2]
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ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / ninth in order / letter "I" or Roman "IX" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 345° / nona
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Words with 士

person / figure / public figure
lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy)
Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher
the Magi / the Three Wise Kings from the East in the biblical nativity story
ASICS (Japanese footwear brand)
Alor Star city, capital of Kedah state in northwest Malaysia
Seven Samurai (movie)
a human rights activist / a fighter for human rights
gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals
those with lofty ideals (idiom) / men of vision
Master of Business Administration (MBA)

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