博士

はかせ · hakase · JLPT N3 · noun

doctors degree

🎓 博 wide + 士 scholar = a scholar of wide learning

博 means broad or extensive, as in 博物館 (museum); 士 is a learned man. In everyday speech it is read hakase, as in Professor Oak's title オーキド博士. The formal degree title is usually read はくし.

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