shì
to kill one's superior
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 弒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to murder a superior | ||
patricide | ||
regicide | ||
to commit regicide |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥ək-s | syiH | shì | assassinate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4763rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5F12 |
Shuowen | “弒，臣殺君也。《易》曰：‘臣弒其君。’从殺省，式聲。” |
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