Chinese Character Wiki
尸

shī

sitting person

Original meaning: 

sit

Depicts a person with their knees bent to sit or squat.

Evolution

尸 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
尸 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
尸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

尸  

shī

person representing the dead (during burial ceremonies); to put a corpse on display (after execution); variant of 屍|尸[shī]; corpse

尸 (屍) 

shī

corpse, carcass

Most common words with 尸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

尸体

dead body

尸

corpse

僵尸

gyonshi

验尸

autopsy

死尸

a corpse

Component uses

Meaning component in 18 characters (4 verified)

展 局 屍 屁 屈 屠 屡 屢 屑 孱 屙 羼 尻 屣 屃 屄 屌 屭

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

屍

Iconic component in 7 characters (7 verified)

尼 尾 刷 尿 尉 屎 𡱒

Unknown component in 2 characters (0 verified)

屦 屨

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

屍

Unicode

U+5C38

Shuowen

“尸，陳也。象卧之形。”


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