志士 しし imperial loyalist samurai of the… #26,196 Meanings noun, historical imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation Its kanji 志 シ · シリング、こころざ.す、こころざし intention, plan, resolve, aspire, motive, hopes, shilling 士 シ · さむらい gentleman, scholar, samurai, samurai radical (no. 33)