shāishī

strain

Evolution

釃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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shāi

strain

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shī

(literary) to filter (wine); to pour (wine or tea); to dredge; also pr. [shāi]; Taiwan pr. [sī]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.sre

srje

shāi

to strain off wine


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7780th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

26

Simplified

Unicode

U+91C3

Shuowen

“釃,下酒也。一曰醇也。从酉,麗聲。”


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