shì

to confer posthumous titles

smiling
(literary) the appearance of smiling; used in ancient texts to describe a joyful look.
shì
variant
posthumous title
(bound form) a name or title conferred on kings, nobles, or high officials after their death to honor or evaluate their life's work
to confer a posthumous name
(literary) to grant or evaluate a posthumous title based on the person's deeds while alive; to give a name to someone after they have died based on their deeds in life.

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Frequency

Character
Written text
4,039th most common 2.88 per million
Movie subtitles
5,271st most common 0.040 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.29 per million

Details

Traditional
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+8C25

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