shí, dàn
stone
Pictograph of a musical stone chime. The 口 component was added later as a meaningless decorative mark.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*dAk | dzyek | shí | stone |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 37.1616% of movies
835th most common character in movies
414th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+77F3 |
Shuowen | “石,山石也。在厂之下,口象形。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.727
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