What is "deshi"

Usage examples of "deshi".

Zhang buttonholed Tan Deshi for several min­utes before heading back to his.

His name was Kong Deshi, and he was a minor diplomat on the official list, age forty-six, a man of modest di­mensions, and, the form card at the Foreign Ministry said, modest in­tellectual gifts—that was a polite way of saying he was considered a dunce.

But America had been his country's principal enemy for so many years, had thwarted two of his best and most skillfully laid plans—and now he'd see its destruction by means of one of its very own agencies, this cursed medium of television news, and though Tan Deshi claimed that it was not an organ of the American government, surely that could not be the case.

His name was Kong Deshi, and he was a minor diplomat on the official list, age forty-six, a man of modest dimensions, and, the form card at the Foreign Ministry said, modest intellectual gifts -- that was a polite way of saying he was considered a dunce.

Zhang buttonholed Tan Deshi for several minutes before heading back to his.

But America had been his country's principal enemy for so many years, had thwarted two of his best and most skillfully laid plans -- and now he'd see its destruction by means of one of its very own agencies, this cursed medium of television news, and though Tan Deshi claimed that it was not an organ of the American government, surely that could not be the case.