shé
tongue
Depicts a tongue sticking out of a mouth.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə.lat | zyet | shé | tongue |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 15.4093% of movies
1699th most common character in movies
1958th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+820C |
Shuowen | “舌,在口所以言也,別味也。从千,从口,千亦聲。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.145
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