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Mythic Mandarin

史 (shǐ): meaning and stroke order

史 (shǐ) means history, annals, title of an official historian in ancient China, surname Shi.

史

Simplified
史
Traditional
史 (same form)
Pinyin
shǐ

Stroke order of 史

史

  • Shǐ surname Shi
  • shǐ history; annals
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 史

  1. shǐ
    • history
    • annals
    • title of an official historian in ancient China
  2. Shǐ
    • surname Shi

Radical and structure

史
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 5 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 史

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).