讼师
sòng​shī

law practitioner

  • created reference approved 讼师/訟師 → 位 (classifier) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    讼师 / 訟師 sòng​shī

    位 wèi

    classifier

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 讼师/訟師 · sòng​shī · law practitioner — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    讼师 / 訟師

    sòng​shī

    law practitioner

    someone whose profession was to help people with lawsuits and write legal papers in old China, often used for an unscrupulous legal practitioner or pettifogger

    讼 (literal) → 讼/訟 · sòng · lawsuit 师 (literal) → 师/師 · shī · specialist

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense