Chinese Character Wiki

噬

shì

bite

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

mouth

筮 sound component

筮  Sound component

shì

  

divination with stalks of plants

Evolution

噬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
噬 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
噬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

噬  

shì

bite; gnaw; snap at; to devour; to bite

Most common words with 噬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

吞噬

to swallow

噬

to devour

噬菌体

phage

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]e[t]-s

dzyejH

shì

bite (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.3066% of movies

2938th most common character in movies

3228th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+566C

Shuowen

“噬，啗也；喙也。从口，筮聲。”


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