(bound form) plan; scheme; strategy; policy; method

(bound form) a person of a certain type, such as a professional or someone with a specific quality; also used as a polite title for a person, such as in 女士 nǚ​shì

(literary) an ancient type of essay, especially one written for the imperial examinations

(bound form) scholar; intellectual; member of the educated class in ancient China, as in the phrase 士农工商 shì​nóng​gōng​shāng