| 名师出高徒 |
míng shī chū gāo tú |
A famous teacher trains a fine student (idiom). A cultured man will have a deep influence on his successors. |
| 名 |
míng |
name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people |
| 名师 |
míng shī |
famous master / great teacher |
| 师 |
Shī |
surname Shi |
| 师 |
shī |
teacher / master / expert / model / army division / (old) troops / to dispatch troops |
| 出 |
chū |
to go out; to come out / to arise; to occur / to produce; to yield / to go beyond; to exceed / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc |
| 出 |
chū |
variant of 出 (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels) |
| 高 |
Gāo |
surname Gao |
| 高 |
gāo |
high / tall / above average / loud / your (honorific) |
| 高徒 |
gāo tú |
brilliant student |
| 徒 |
Tú |
surname Tu |
| 徒 |
tú |
(bound form) disciple; apprentice; believer; (derog.) wrongdoer (as in 骗徒 "swindler" or 叛徒 "traitor" etc) / (bound form) on foot / (bound form) bare; empty / (bound form) to no avail; in vain / (bound form) merely; just; only / (bound form) prison sentence |