shè
society
Original meaning:
god of soil
Originally depicted a god (礻) of the soil (土). The meaning later shifted to "shrine", "congregation", and "society".
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
shè
god of the soil and altars to him; group of families; company, society; society; group; club; agency; (old) god of the land
Most common words with 社
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
society | ||
community | ||
Xinhua News Agency | ||
socialism | ||
society |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-tʰAʔ | dzyaeX | shè | sacrifice to the spirit of the soil |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 36.8573% of movies
980th most common character in movies
270th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+793E |
Shuowen | “社，地主也。从示、土。《春秋傳》曰：‘共工之子句龍為社神。’《周禮》：‘二十五家為社，各樹其土所宜之木。’，古文社。” |
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