Chinese Character Wiki
屍

shī

corpse

A person (尸) who is dead (死).

Components
尸 sound,meaning component

尸  Sound Meaning component

shī

  

sitting person

死 meaning component

死  Meaning component

sǐ

  

die

Evolution

屍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
屍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

尸 (屍) 

shī

corpse, carcass; corpse

Most common words with 屍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

尸体

dead body

尸

corpse

僵尸

gyonshi

验尸

autopsy

死尸

a corpse

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

9

Simplified

尸

Unicode

U+5C4D

Shuowen

“屍，終主。从尸，从死。”


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