士
shì HSK4

scholar, soldier

士 shì
person noun
(bound form) a person of a certain type, such as a professional or someone with a specific quality; also used as a polite title for a person, such as in 女士 nǚ​shì
soldier noun
(bound form) soldier; troop
scholar noun
(bound form) scholar; intellectual; member of the educated class in ancient China, as in the phrase 士农工商 shì​nóng​gōng​shāng
non-commissioned officer noun
(bound form) a military rank below commissioned officers, such as sergeant or corporal
[chess piece]
(Chinese chess) a piece that protects the king, known as the advisor, guard, or scholar
Shi
the Chinese surname Shi
official
(bound form) the lowest rank of the nobility in ancient China, positioned between the dafu (senior officials) and the common people; an official

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Frequency
Character
Written text
372nd most common 597.9 per million
Movie subtitles
247th most common 682.6 per million appears in 84% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
24.7 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
36.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+58EB

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