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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
shī - (literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies)
- (literary) to put a corpse on display (after execution)
- corpse (variant of 屍|尸[shi1])
shī - (bound form) corpse

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 1,783 5,894 5,417

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

丿

Radical:

Type:

Pictographic

Hint:

A man keeled over

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
尸体 6 7 651 4,315 7,623
- - 1,783 5,894 5,417
验尸 - - 4,194 42,280 48,356
僵尸 - - 4,557 10,609 4,457
死尸 - - 8,068 35,512 37,169
尸骨 - - 11,766 30,867 32,661
尸首 - - 19,935 40,496 55,114
尸身 - - 27,621 43,386 75,572
尸骸 - - 36,169 71,433 74,457
马革裹尸 - - 79,427 - 70,242