教师

Meaning(noun)

teacher

教师 is more formal than 老师; address teachers as 老师.

Measure words: 个

Examples

• 我妈妈是一名小学教师。

  wǒ mā ma shì yì míng xiǎo xué jiào shī.

  My mother is a primary school teacher.

• 这所学校有八十多位教师。

  zhè suǒ xué xiào yǒu bā shí duō wèi jiào shī.

  This school has more than eighty teachers.

• 他想当一名汉语教师。

  tā xiǎng dāng yì míng hàn yǔ jiào shī.

  He wants to be a Chinese teacher.

Easily confused

• 教授 — 教师 reads 'giáo sư' but means teacher; a professor is 教授.

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