shì

persimmon

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

市 sound component

  Sound component

shì

  

market

Definitions

 

shì

persimmon

() 

shì

old variant of [shì]

Most common words with 柿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

西红柿

tomato

柿子

persimmon

old variant of 柿[shì]

柿子椒

bell pepper

柿饼

dried persimmon

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]rijʔ (? or *S.ɢrijʔ)

dzrijX

shì

persimmon


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 1.3615% of movies

3122nd most common character in movies

3355th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+67FF


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