仕
shì

official

仕 shì
advisor (chess) noun
the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the general or king

棋局进入残局，他只剩下一仕一象。

qí​jú jìn​rù cán​jú, tā zhǐ shèng​xià yī shì yī xiàng.

The chess game entered the endgame, leaving him with only one guard and one elephant.

hold office noun
to serve as a government official; a person holding an official position

他一心求仕，希望能为国效力。

tā yī​xīn qiú shì, xī​wàng néng wèi guó xiào​lì.

He was determined to seek a government post, hoping to serve his country.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,042nd most common 9.33 per million
Movie subtitles
3,536th most common 1.34 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.780 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
8.97 per million

Details
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+4ED5

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