屎
shǐ

excrement

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Depicts a person (尸) defecating feces (米).

Components

尸
尸 Iconic component
米
米 Iconic component

Depicts human feces.


Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartsyijX[qʰ]ijʔ excrement
xjij[qʰ]ij (dialect: *qʰ- > *x-, no palatalization)moan

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica