筮
shì

divination with stalks of plants

Components

⺮
⺮ Meaning component
zhú bamboo
巫
巫 Meaning component
wū wizard, shaman

divining rod

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

噬

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdzyejH[d][e][t]-s divine by Achillea stalks

說文解字

《說文》：“，《易》卦用蓍也。从竹，从。，古文巫字。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)