shì
oath, vow
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 折 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 誓
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to vow | ||
to pledge | ||
oath | ||
to make a vow | ||
to make a solemn vow |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d][a]t-s | dzyejH | shì | swear |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 41.4224% of movies
994th most common character in movies
2095th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+8A93 |
Shuowen | “誓，約束也。从言，折聲。” |
Sources
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