shíshì

transplant

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

时 sound component

  Sound component

shí

  

time

Evolution

莳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
莳 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
莳 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

shí

transplant; plant; dill, Anethum graveolens; see 蒔蘿|莳萝[shí​luó]

() 

shì

to grow; to transplant

Most common words with 莳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to grow

莳萝

dill (herb, Anethum graveolens)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6133rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+83B3


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