shě
discard
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 舍 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 捨
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
dormitory | ||
to give up | ||
to hate to do sth | ||
to be willing to part with sth | ||
to give in charity |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥Aʔ | syaeX | shě | set aside, give up |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 12.8464% of movies
1700th most common character in movies
1344th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6368 |
Shuowen | “捨,釋也。从手,舍聲。” |
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