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Mythic Mandarin

尸 (shī): meaning and stroke order

尸 (shī) means (bound form) corpse.

尸

Simplified
尸
Traditional
屍, 尸
Pinyin
shī

Stroke order of 尸

尸

  • shī (literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies); (literary) to put a corpse on display (after execution)
  • shī (bound form) corpse
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 屍

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 尸

  1. shī Traditional 屍
    • (bound form) corpse
  2. shī
    • (literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies)
    • (literary) to put a corpse on display (after execution)
    • variant of 屍|尸[shi1]

Radical and structure

尸
Radical 尸 (Kangxi radical 44) · 3 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 尸

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).