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Giancarlo DiPierro (G DiPierro) wrote:
Yes, but the character for shi that you use means "teacher," and I thought the point of your original post was that none of the characters in shihan or sensei directly refer to teaching.
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In my everyday use of the "shi" character in the Japanese language, I hadn't assosiciated the character directly to "teaching" outside of the context of the term "shihan." Rather, I had associated the term more with "master" or "expert" instead...
In any case, I used the correct kanji in my "Kanji for Aikido Ranks" page here. Does that count?
http://www.aikiweb.com/language/ranks_k.html
-- Jun