shì

bite

Components

Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth

mouth

Sound component
shì divination with stalks of plants

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdzyejH[d]e[t]-sbite (v.)
Zhengzhangdjads
Unicodezhiɛ̀i

說文解字

啗也。喙也。从口筮聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica