shì
look at
Phonosemantic compound. 見 represents the meaning and 礻 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*gijʔ | dzyijX | shì | look, see |
*gijʔ-s | dzyijH | shì | look, see |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 74.7717% of movies
442nd most common character in movies
438th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8996 |
Shuowen | “視,瞻也。从見、示。,古文視;眡,亦古文視。” |
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