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蝨
shī

louse

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsritsriklouse
Zhengzhangsriɡ
Unicodeshrit

說文解字

齧人蟲。从䖵卂聲。

Sources

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