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daoshi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
daoshi
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person committed to Taoism, a Taoist priest, monk, etc.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 道士 (dàoshì, “Taoist scholar, scholar of the Way”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

daoshis (plural) taoshi (alternative) tao-shi (alternative) tao-shih (alternative) tao-sse (alternative)

Questions

What does daoshi mean?
A person committed to Taoism, a Taoist priest, monk, etc.
Where does daoshi come from?
It is traced to Chinese.

How to pronounce daoshi

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