shì
persimmon
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 市 represents the sound.
Most common words with 柿
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
tomato | ||
persimmon | ||
old variant of 柿[shì] | ||
bell pepper | ||
dried persimmon |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]rijʔ (? or *S.ɢrijʔ) | dzrijX | shì | persimmon |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 1.3615% of movies
3122nd most common character in movies
3355th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+67FF |
Sources
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