shī
milfoil
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-kij | syij | shī | Achillea (?) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6185th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+84CD |
Shuowen | “蓍，蒿屬。生十歲，百莖。《易》以為數：天子蓍九尺，諸侯七尺，大夫五尺，士三尺。从艸，耆聲。” |
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