shì

lick with tongue

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
舌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shé

  

tongue

氏 sound component

  Sound component

shìzhī

  

clan

Definitions

 

shì

lick with tongue; to lick; to lap (up)

Most common words with 舐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to lick

舐犊情深

lit. the cow licking its calf fondly (idiom)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.leʔ

zyeX

shì

lick


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4344th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+8210


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