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If you're going to use a foreign word for teacher, shifu would likely be more appropriate than sensei. Lee's martial arts were rooted in Chinese tradition, not
by t-3 1y ago
If you're going to use a foreign word for teacher, shifu would likely be more appropriate than sensei. Lee's martial arts were rooted in Chinese tradition, not Japanese.
- ge96 1y agoWeird the red panda's name is Master Shifu
- tines 1y agoWhy weird? That movie is also set in China.
- qskousen 1y agoThe master teacher.
- ge96 1y agoAhh I took it as master master
- thaumasiotes 1y agoThat's more accurate. Shifu is just intended to translate the English "master".† Note that it isn't the Chinese word for "teacher", which is 老师 laoshi. (Same "shi".) Shifu is a different title. ABC provides these glosses: ----- 师傅 shīfu 1. master worker 2. tutor of a king/emperor 3. [PRC] general term of address in the late 70s and 80s 4. [courteous] term of address for service workers [such as a carpenter] ----- The Tuttle Learner's Dictionary provides this note: > 师傅 shīfu is [] a polite form of address to a worker. For example, an electrician or a mechanic can be addressed as 师傅, or, if his family name is 李, 李师傅. It is how martial arts instructors are addressed, but not how teachers are addressed. Teachers are white-collar. † In the movie, it's pronounced with the FLEECE vowel, as if it were the English words "she foo", for no reason that I can understand. To an English speaker, the Mandarin word will sound like "shiffoo", using KIT and not FLEECE in the first syllable.
- psnehanshu 1y agoYeah, that's "Master Master", just like Chai Tea, which means "Tea Tea" and East Timor, which means "East East".
- tmtvl 1y agoYou mean Timor Leste, which still means 'East East', but they decided to replace the English bit with Portugese.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoOr "River Avon"
- matheist 1y agoSifu, rather, which would be the Cantonese version (Lee was a Cantonese speaker and didn't speak Mandarin)