shì

to confer posthumous titles

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

speech

益 sound component

  Sound component

  

benefit

Evolution

謚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
謚 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
謚 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

shì

to confer posthumous titles; variant of |[shì]

() 

smiling face

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4039th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B1A

Shuowen

“謚,笑皃。从言,益聲。”


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