噬
shì

bite

噬 shì
bite verb
to bite into or gnaw

他感到一股钻心的疼痛，仿佛被毒虫所噬。

tā gǎn​dào yī gǔ zuān​xīn de téng​tòng, fǎng​fú bèi dú​chóng suǒ shì.

He felt a piercing pain, as if being devoured by poisonous insects.

devour verb
to swallow up or consume entirely

如果不能控制自己的欲望，最终必将被其所噬。

rú​guǒ bù néng kòng​zhì zì​jǐ de yù​wàng, zuì​zhōng bì jiāng bèi qí suǒ shì.

If you cannot control your desires, you will eventually be consumed by them.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,228th most common 7.33 per million
Movie subtitles
2,938th most common 3.80 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.890 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
5.97 per million

Details
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+566C

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)