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Chinese symbol for “pedagogical”

师范
shī fàn
Traditional: 師範
teacher-training; pedagogical; normal (school, e.g. Beijing Normal University)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for pedagogical is 师范 (shī fàn), defined as: teacher-training; pedagogical; normal (school, e.g. Beijing Normal University).

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Characters and stroke order

师 shī
teacher, professional, master
radical 50 ⼱ · 6 strokes
范 fàn
pattern, model, example; surname
radical 140 ⾋ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 师范.

WordPinyinMeaning
老师 (老師)lǎo shīteacher
教师 (教師)jiào shīteacher; 个 (gè)
律师 (律師)lǜ shīlawyer
大师 (大師)dà shīgreat master; master
工程师 (工程師)gōng chéng shīengineer
设计师 (設計師)shè jì shīdesigner; architect
范围 (範圍)fàn wéirange; scope
规范 (規範)guī fànnorm; standard

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.