shì
divination with stalks of plants
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d][e][t]-s | dzyejH | shì | divine by Achillea stalks |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5559th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+7B6E |
Shuowen | “，《易》卦用蓍也。从竹，从。，古文巫字。” |
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