Chinese Character Wiki
实

shí

real

Original meaning: 

rich; plentiful

Simplified form of 實. Depicts a string of money (貫) under a roof (宀). Based on the original meaning "rich; plentiful". The meaning later expanded to "solid", "fruit", and "true". The 貫 component was changed to 头 for simplification.

Components
宀 meaning component

宀  Meaning component

mián

  

roof

头 simplified component

头  Simplified component

tóu, tou

  

head

Shorthand for the 貫 component in the traditional character 實.

Evolution

实 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
实 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
实 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
实 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
实 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

实 (實) 

shí

real, true, solid, honest; real; true; honest; really; solid; fruit; seed; definitely

Most common words with 实
Freq.
Word
Meaning

其实

actually

确实

indeed

实现

to achieve

事实

fact

事实上

in fact

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 98.5263% of movies

150th most common character in movies

100th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

實

Unicode

U+5B9E


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