shì
market
Origin unclear. 止 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.[d]əʔ | dzyiX | shì | market (n.) |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 57.2001% of movies
623rd most common character in movies
254th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+5E02 |
Shuowen | “市,買賣所之也。市有垣,从冂,从乁。乁,古文及,象物相及也。之省聲。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.499-450
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