shì
suitable, to fit
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 啻 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-tek | syek | shì | scared |
*s-tek | syek | shì | go to |
*tek | tsyek | shì | go to |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 57.9369% of movies
782nd most common character in movies
663rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9069 |
Shuowen | “適,之也。从辵,啻聲。適,宋、魯語。” |
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