Fuku Shidoin

The word means „assisting instructor“ or „assisting teacher“ and is usually used as an honorific title to designate an official inexperienced instructor within an organization.^[1] An intermediate level instructor would have the title Shidōin and a senior instructor would have the title Shihan.

Fuku (副) is set as a suffix in front of the title and means deputy, representative, supporting or vice. The word Shidōin (指導員) descends from Shido (suru) 指導 (する). It consists of yubi 指 which means finger or sasu 指す which is the verb for showing. Michibiku 導 means guide or lead. Shido also stands for chivalry, the code of honor of the samurai.^[2]