shì
serve
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 寺 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 侍
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to serve | ||
attendant | ||
Imperial bodyguard | ||
to attend to | ||
maid |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]əʔ-s | dzyiH | shì | accompany, wait upon |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.6132% of movies
2352nd most common character in movies
1871st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+4F8D |
Shuowen | “侍，承也。从人，寺聲。” |
Sources
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