Chinese Character Wiki

逝

shì

pass away

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 折 represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

折 sound component

折  Sound component

zhé, shé, zhē

  

break off

Evolution

逝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

逝  

shì

pass away; die; (of time) to pass; to die

Most common words with 逝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

逝

to die

流逝

to elapse

逝世

to die

消逝

to fade away

逝去

to elapse

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]at-s

dzyejH

shì

go to


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.2744% of movies

2087th most common character in movies

2102nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+901D

Shuowen

“逝，往也。从辵，折聲。讀若誓。”


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