shì

decorate

Components
飠 sound component

  Sound component

shí

  

eat

巾 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

cloth

cloth

Evolution

飾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
飾 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
飾 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
飾 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
飾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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shì

decorate, ornament, adorn; to deceive; decoration; ornament; to decorate; to adorn; to hide; to conceal (a fault); excuse (to hide a fault); to play a role (in opera); to impersonate

Most common words with 飾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

装饰

to decorate

掩饰

to cover up

服饰

apparel

decoration

首饰

jewelry

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥ək

syik

shì

adorn


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.6380% of movies

1540th most common character in movies

1604th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+98FE

Shuowen

“飾,也。从巾、从人,食聲。一曰襐飾。”


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