屎 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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shǐ

excrement

A person, crouched 尸 defecating 米; 米 also provides the pronunciation

Components

尸 Meaning component

shī

sitting person

mǐ

rice

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

shǐ

excrement, shit, dung; stool; feces; ear wax; nasal mucus

Most common words with 屎

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[qʰ]ijʔ	syijX	shǐ	excrement
[qʰ]ij (dialect: qʰ- > *x-, no palatalization)	xjij	xī	moan

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.5191% of movies

1561st most common character in movies

3336th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	9
Unicode	U+5C4E

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