shǐ
excrement
Depicts a person (尸) defecating feces (米).
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[qʰ]ijʔ | syijX | shǐ | excrement |
*[qʰ]ij (dialect: *qʰ- > *x-, no palatalization) | xjij | xī | moan |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 13.5191% of movies
1561st most common character in movies
3336th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+5C4E |
Sources
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