shǐ
arrow
Pictograph of an arrow.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 矢
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
arrow | ||
attacked on all sides | ||
vector (spatial) | ||
to deny flatly | ||
to pledge |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥i[j]ʔ | syijX | shǐ | arrow |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.4737% of movies
3169th most common character in movies
2811th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+77E2 |
Shuowen | “矢,弓弩矢也。从入,象鏑栝羽之形。古者夷牟初作矢。” |
Sources
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