Chinese Character Wiki

仕

shì

official

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 士 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

士 sound component

士  Sound component

shì

  

scholar, soldier

Evolution

仕 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
仕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

仕  

shì

official; serve government; to serve as an official; an official; the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将[jiàng]

Most common words with 仕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

仕

an official

仕途

official career (formal)

仕女

court lady

学而优则仕

one who is successful in one's studies, can become an official (idiom)

仕宦

(literary) to serve as an official

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

茌

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[m-s-]rəʔ

dzriX

shì

serve


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3042nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+4ED5

Shuowen

“仕，學也。从人，从士。”


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