shī

milfoil

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

耆 sound component

  Sound component

  

man of sixty

Evolution

蓍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蓍 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
蓍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shī

milfoil, plant used in divination; yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-kij

syij

shī

Achillea (?)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6185th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+84CD

Shuowen

“蓍,蒿屬。生十歲,百莖。《易》以為數:天子蓍九尺,諸侯七尺,大夫五尺,士三尺。从艸,耆聲。”


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