shì
pass away
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 折 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]at-s | dzyejH | shì | go to |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.2744% of movies
2087th most common character in movies
2102nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+901D |
Shuowen | “逝,往也。从辵,折聲。讀若誓。” |
Sources
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