shī
sitting person
Original meaning:
sit
Depicts a person with their knees bent to sit or squat.
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
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥̥[ə]j | syij | shī | corpse |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 34.8550% of movies
766th most common character in movies
1517th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 3 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5C38 |
Shuowen | “尸,陳也。象卧之形。” |
Sources
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