授 (sau6 | shou4) : confer; teach

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授

sau6

shou4

[1] confer; award; give; grant
[2] teach; instruct; lecture

Stroke count: 11

Level: 2

Radical: 扌 (#64)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

授

This word has been viewed 5945 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 24th Nov 2010 05:07

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教授 gaau3 sau6 jiao4 shou4 = professor

授予 sau6 jyu5 shou4 yu3 = to award; to confer

傳授 cyun4 sau6 chuan2 shou4 = to impart; to convey; to teach; to pass on; to hand down; to instruct

授權 sau6 kyun4 shou4 quan2 = to authorize

授權書 sau6 kyun4 syu1 = certificate of authorization; commission of authority; power of attoney

指導教授 zi2 dou6 gaau3 sau6 zhi3 dao3 jiao4 shou4 = advisor; advising professor

授命 sau6 ming6 shou4 ming4 = to give orders

大學教授 daai6 hok6 gaau3 sau6 = a university professor

未經授權 mei6 ging1 sau6 kyun4 = unauthorised, unauthorized

授勛 sau6 fan1 shou4 xun1 = to award an honor
See all 21 compounds (CantoDict reports 20 compounds in total, which would seem to be an error - please report this on the CantoDict forum)

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教授畢竟是教授粵
Professors are (after all) professors.

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Decimal representation of this word: 授
Unicode code for this character: U+6388 (off-site link)

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