shī

a short spear

Evolution

鉈 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
鉈 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
鉈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

() 

shī

a short spear; thallium

() 

thallium (chemistry)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6491st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+9248

Shuowen

“鉈,短矛。从金,它聲。”


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