sī
an amphibious beast resembling a tiger with one horn
Origin unclear. 虎 depicts a tiger.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
sī
an amphibious beast resembling a tiger with one horn; place name; amphibious animal with one horn
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.le | sje | sī | (place name) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
7189th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+8652 |
Shuowen | “虒，委虒，虎之有角者也。从虎，聲。” |
Sources
許進雄《新編進階甲骨文字典: 甲骨文發現120周年紀念版》p.36
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