侍

さむらい · samurai · JLPT N1 · noun

samurai

侍 — samurai

⚔️ 亻person + 寺temple: an attendant who serves a lord, later the warrior class

The left part 亻 is the person radical and 寺 means temple. The original sense was one who attends or waits on a noble, which later narrowed to the warrior class we call samurai.

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