尸

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

sitting person

HSK 7

Human →Body

shī

シ

かたしろ

시

Depicts a person with their knees bent to sit or squat.

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

尸

Regular

Modern

Chinese

尸 [shī]

person representing the dead (during burial ceremonies); to put a corpse on display (after execution); variant of 屍|尸[shī]; corpse

尸 / 屍 [shī]

corpse

Japanese

屍、尸 (rare) しかばね、かばね、し同音

noun

corpse
kanji "corpse" radical

Example Sentences

CHINESE WORDS (48)

行尸走肉 [xíngshīzǒuròu] #25,785

walking corpse (idiom)

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JAPANESE WORDS (8)

屍 [しかばね] #8,877

corpse

三尸 [さんし] #123,401

the three worms (in Taoism)

憑坐 [よりまし] #147,840

child or doll used as a vessel for a spirit invoked by a shaman or miko

頼母子 [たのもし] #173,423

mutual financing association

尸位素餐 [しいそさん] #231,615

neglecting the duties of an office while taking pay

尸位 [しい]

neglecting the duties of an office while taking pay

尸冠 [しかばねかんむり]

kanji "corpse" radical

尸諌 [しかん]

admonishing (one's master) at the cost of one's life