shī

strain

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartsrjeCə.sreto strain off wine
Zhengzhangsrel
srelʔ
sra

說文解字

下酒也。一曰醇也。从酉麗聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

shī, shāi, lí strain Simplified

Components

Meaning component
yǒu wine

wine

Sound component
beautiful

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