shī
wet
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 㬎 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[qʰ]ip | syip | shī | to flap (sc. the ears) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.4001% of movies
1797th most common character in movies
1743rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6FD5 |
Shuowen | “濕，水。出東郡東武陽，入海。从水，聲。桑欽云：出平原高唐。” |
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