míng shì
famous scholar
worthy
celebrity, esp. distinguished literary person having no official post
míng shī
famous master
great teacher
Míng shǐ
History of the Ming Dynasty, twenty fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Zhang Tingyu 張廷玉|张廷玉[Zhang1 Ting2 yu4] in 1739 during the Qing Dynasty, 332 scrolls
míng shí
name and reality
whether reality lives up to its reputation
Dài Míng shì
Dai Mingshi (1653-1713), early Qing writer
míng shì
to state explicitly
to clearly indicate