Chinese Character Wiki

螫

shì

poison

Components
赦 sound component

赦  Sound component

shè

  

forgive

虫 meaning component

虫  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

insect

Evolution

螫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
螫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

螫  

shì

poison; sting; poisonous insect; to sting; also pr. [zhē]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[l̥]Ak

syek

shì

sting (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5017th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+87AB

Shuowen

“螫，蟲行毒也。从虫，赦聲。”


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