Chinese Character Wiki
實

shí

real

Original meaning: 

rich; plentiful

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".

Components
宀 meaning component

宀  Meaning component

mián

  

roof

貫 meaning component

貫  Meaning component

guàn

  

a string of 1000 coins

Evolution

實 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
實 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

实 (實) 

shí

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

Most common words with 實
Freq.
Word
Meaning

其实

actually

确实

indeed

实现

to achieve

事实

fact

事实上

in fact

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mə.li[t]

zyit

shí

fruit; full


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 98.5263% of movies

150th most common character in movies

100th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

实

Unicode

U+5BE6

Shuowen

“實，富也。从宀，从貫。貫，貨貝也。”


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