Skip to content
Inkstone
Sign in

shì

Meanings

CC-CEDICT

shì
  1. 1.to devour
  2. 2.to bite

CC-CEDICT · CC BY-SA

Wiktionary

  1. 1.to bite; to gnaw

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *djads): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 筮 (OC *djads). Sagart (2021c) revises the Old Chinese reconstruction as *m-tet-s, from volitional prefix *m- + a root *tet-s (“to bite”), from which 瘈 (OC *k(ə)-tet-s, “mad; rabid (dog)”) also derives.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Stroke order

Components

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

More examples & usage (AI)

Derived terms

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Related words