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捨

shě

discard

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 舍 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

舍 sound component

舍  Sound component

shě, shè

  

residence

Evolution

捨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
捨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

舍 (捨) 

shě

discard, give up willingly; give alms; to give up; to abandon; to give alms

Most common words with 捨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

宿舍

dormitory

舍

to give up

舍不得

to hate to do sth

舍得

to be willing to part with sth

施舍

to give in charity

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥Aʔ

syaeX

shě

set aside, give up


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 12.8464% of movies

1700th most common character in movies

1344th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

舍

Unicode

U+6368

Shuowen

“捨，釋也。从手，舍聲。”


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