匙
chíshi HSK7

spoon

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Phonosemantic compound. 匕 represents the meaning and 是 represents the sound.

Components

是
是 Sound component
匕
匕 Meaning component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangdje
Unicodezhiɛ

說文解字

《說文》：“匙，匕也。从匕，是聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)