shè
shoot
Depicts a hand pulling back a bowstring with an arrow to shoot.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.lAk-s | zyaeH | shè | shoot; archer |
*Cə.lAk | zyek | shè | hit with bow and arrow |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 41.1981% of movies
758th most common character in movies
703rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+5C04 |
Shuowen | “,弓弩發於身而中於遠也。从矢,从身。射,篆文从寸。寸,法度也,亦手也。” |
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