西塾

Chinese

		west	private tutorage
simp. and trad. (西塾)		西	塾

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xīshú

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ ㄕㄨˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xīshú
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ ㄕㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sishú
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹-shu²
    • Yale: syī-shú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shishwu
    • Palladius: сишу (sišu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ ʂu³⁵/

Noun

西塾

1. (literary) western alcove (the main room on the west side outside an entrance)
2. (literary, late Qing) school run by foreigners or teaching Western science