蝕
shí

nibble away

蚀 (蝕) shí
erode verb
to nibble away at or corrode something gradually through physical or chemical action

铁架子被酸蚀了一个洞。

tiě jià​zi bèi suān shí le yī gè dòng.

A hole was corroded into the iron frame by acid.

lose verb
to suffer a loss of capital; to have one's money or investment eaten into

这桩生意做下来，咱们可是蚀了本。

zhè zhuāng shēng​yi zuò xià​lai, zán​men kě​shì shí le běn.

We ended up losing money on this business deal.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,625th most common 16.2 per million
Movie subtitles
2,718th most common 5.89 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.40 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
4.33 per million

Details
Simplified
蚀
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+8755

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