shì
explain
Simplified form of 釋. Phonosemantic compound. 釆 represents the meaning and 𠬤 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥Ak | syek | shì | release; dissolve |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 61.2846% of movies
667th most common character in movies
813th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+91CA |
Sources
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