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teacher / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
teaching; instruction / CL:
HSK 2
classroom / CL: 間|间
HSK 2
to educate / to teach / education
HSK 2
religion
HSK 6
Buddhism
HSK 6
school building; academic building
HSK 1
to provide guidance; to lecture sb; to upbraid / a talking-to; a bitter lesson / CL: , 頓|顿
HSK 4
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  *教* | 教* | *教
to teach; to instruct
HSK 1
to ask for guidance / to consult
HSK 3
teaching material / CL:
HSK 3
to coach; to train / instructor; sports coach; trainer (CL:,)
HSK 3
professor
HSK 4
textbook / CL:
HSK 7-9
Christianity
HSK 6
Taoism; Daoism
HSK 6
Islam
HSK 7-9
to teach by demonstration
religious studies
doctrine / dogma / creed / dogmatic
HSK 7-9
regular education
church; chapel / CL: , , 間|间
HSK 6
Ministry of Education
HSK 6
family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor
HSK 7-9
Protestant / adherent of Protestantism
sufferings brought about by Confucian ethics
Church of Our Lady / Frauenkirche
to draw a lesson (from a setback)
general education
elementary education
(Tw) life skills education; education in practical, emotional, social and moral aspects of daily living
to invigorate the country through science and education
the Three Doctrines (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism)
religious belief / to practice a faith / to be religious
supplementary educational material (e.g. a practice workbook, exam preparation guide etc)
to teach
to educate; to bring up; to nurture / upbringing; breeding; culture
HSK 7-9
reeducation through labor
educational background
to hold a teaching position
Humanistic Buddhism
preschool education / early childhood education
spare-time education / evening classes
Hinduism
educational organization
exam-oriented education; teaching to the test
secondary education
sex education
to offer advice, guidance, or feedback
HSK 7-9
Teachers' Day (September 10th in PRC and Confucius's birthday, September 28th in Taiwan)
sect
the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
Eastern Orthodox Church
(Protestant) Reformation
teacher / instructor / CL: 個|个
Christian denomination
to show / to teach
Christian church
Protestantism
preschool teacher (abbr. for 幼兒教師|幼儿教师)
teaching and administrative staff
God (in Catholicism) / abbr. for 天主教, Catholicism
teaching and administrative staff
to receive instruction / to benefit from advice
pedagogy
when you teach someone, both teacher and student will benefit
disciple / follower of a religion
to teach by words and example (idiom)
(neologism c. 2018) worthy of being used as a textbook example / exemplary / classic / quintessential
foreign teacher (abbr. for 外國教師|外国教师) / greenhorn / novice / amateurish / religion other than Buddhism (term used by Buddhists)
cathedral
Buddhist
to preach a religion
churchyard
vocational training
teaching assistant
associate professor (university post)
academic world / academic circles / academia
to ask for advice / seeking instruction
course syllabus / class curriculum
a Christian
Three-Self Patriotic Movement, PRC government-sanctioned Protestant church from 1949
missionary
religious ceremony
founder or leader of a religion or sect / (fig.) revered figure
to instruct / to teach / guidance / teaching
personal trainer
reeducation through labor
ideological and political education (abbr. for 思想政治教育) (state-directed education in China aimed at promoting Marxism, patriotism and socialist values, particularly in schools and universities – also, more broadly, ideological guidance in workplaces, media and public discourse)
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  *梵* | 梵* | *梵
abbr. for 梵教 Brahmanism / abbr. for Sanskrit 梵語|梵语 or 梵文 / abbr. for 梵蒂岡|梵蒂冈, the Vatican
Catholicism
HSK 7-9
godfather
Catholic / follower of Catholicism
Buddhist term
early education (abbr. for 早期教育)
Baptist denomination
special education / special-needs education
science and education / science education
tutor
to instigate / to incite / to abet

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