sì
indulge
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
sì
indulge; excess; numeral four; particle meaning now, therefore; shop; four (banker's anti-fraud numeral); unrestrained; wanton; (literary) shop
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-ləp-s | sijH | sì | unrestrained |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.6612% of movies
2624th most common character in movies
2445th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+8086 |
Shuowen | “，極陳也。从長，隶聲。，或从髟。” |
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