Chinese Character Wiki
詩

shī

poetry

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 寺 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

寺 sound component

寺  Sound component

sì

  

temple

Evolution

詩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
詩 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
詩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

诗 (詩) 

shī

poetry; poem, verse, ode; poem; CL:首[shǒu]; verse

诗 (詩) 

Shī

abbr. for Shijing 詩經|诗经[Shī​jīng], the Book of Songs

Most common words with 詩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诗

poem

诗人

bard

诗歌

poem

诗意

poetry

史诗

an epic

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s.tə

syi

shī

poetry


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 12.3658% of movies

1597th most common character in movies

906th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

诗

Unicode

U+8A69

Shuowen

“詩，志也。从言，寺聲。，古文詩省。”


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