石
Meanings
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- 1.rock
- 2.stone
- 3.stone inscription
- 4.one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[bā yīn]
- 1.surname Shi
- 2.abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家庄[Shí jiā zhuāng], the capital of Hebei
- 1.dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗[dǒu]; one hundred liters
- 2.ancient pr. [shí]
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Wiktionary
- 1.stone; rock (Classifier: 嚿 c; 塊／块 c)
- 2.gem; jewel; jade
- 3.a surname
- 4.picul, dan, a unit of dry measure
- 5.picul, dan, a unit of dry mass and equivalent volume for grain of variable exact value at different times and places, now officially equal to 100 liters
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形): a stone beneath a cliff (厂). The cliff was subsequently distorted into 丆; compare 叚 , 段 as well as 度, 席. Alternatively, a cave set into the side of a cliff or mountain. Unknown. Schuessler, (2007) proposes a probable relation Proto-Vietic *l-taːʔ (“stone”) (whence Vietnamese đá and Khmer ដា (daa, “rock; stone”)); however this is unlikely due to both: * the mismatch between final *-k and *-ʔ, which requires Schuessler to assume that Chinese added "the familiar final -k" after foreign *-ʔ, resulting in *-ʔ-k > *-k (for an analogy, 汝 (OC *naʔ) > 若 (OC *nak)), therefore reducing his proposal's parsimony; * that so far only nasal pre-initials, not *-l-, are known to have a voicing effect on Old Chinese voiceless initials (see Baxter & Sagart, 2014, Jacques, 2020, etc.); so Proto-Vietic *l-t- would unlikely become Old Chinese *d-.
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Components
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Example sentences
滾石不生苔。
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
不要扔石頭到河裡。
Don't throw rocks into the river.
不要往河裡扔石頭。
Don't throw rocks into the river.
這可能不是真的鑽石。
This might not be a genuine diamond.
這可能不是真的鑽石。
This may not be a real diamond.
他扔一塊石頭到池塘裡。
He threw a rock into the pond.
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