shì
room
Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 至 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.ti[t] | syit | shì | chamber; house |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 77.1104% of movies
368th most common character in movies
708th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+5BA4 |
Shuowen | “室,實也。从宀,从至。至,所止也。” |
Sources
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