shichí

spoon

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
是 sound component

  Sound component

shì

  

is

匕 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

spoon

Evolution

匙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
匙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shi

spoon; surname

Most common words with 匙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

钥匙

key

spoon

汤匙

soup spoon

茶匙

teaspoon

锁匙

(dialect) key

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 26.0452% of movies

1103rd most common character in movies

2476th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5319

Shuowen

“匙,匕也。从匕,是聲。”


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