corpse

Origin & mnemonic

This radical derives from a pictograph in oracle-bone script depicting a human corpse lying in a horizontal position, with strokes arranged to represent the prone form of the deceased.

Mnemonic: The shape resembles a person lying flat and dead — three strokes forming the corpse radical (shī).

• 尸shī🔊

  (literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies)

  3 strokes

• 尺chǐ🔊

  a Chinese foot

  HSK 4

  4 strokes

• 尹yǐn🔊

  (literary) to administer; to govern

  4 strokes

• 尼ní🔊

  Buddhist nun

  5 strokes

• 尻kāo🔊

  (literary) buttocks; rump; coccyx; sacrum

  5 strokes

• 尽jǐn🔊

  to the greatest extent

  HSK 6

  6 strokes

• 尿niào🔊

  to urinate

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 局jú🔊

  narrow

  HSK 4

  7 strokes

• 屁pì🔊

  fart

  7 strokes

• 层céng🔊

  to pile on top of one another

  HSK 2

  7 strokes

• 尾wěi🔊

  tail

  7 strokes

• 㞎bǎ🔊

  (dialect) poo

  7 strokes

• 屃xì🔊

  variant of 屭|屃[xi4]

  7 strokes

• 𪨊sóng🔊

  (coll.) semen

  7 strokes

• 届jiè🔊

  to arrive at (place or time)

  HSK 5

  8 strokes

• 居jū🔊

  to reside

  8 strokes

• 屄bī🔊

  cunt (vulgar)

  8 strokes

• 屇tián🔊

  cave

  8 strokes

• 屈qū🔊

  bent

  8 strokes

• 屉tì🔊

  drawer; tier; tray

  8 strokes

• 屎shǐ🔊

  feces; excrement; a stool

  9 strokes

• 屋wū🔊

  (bound form) house

  HSK 5

  9 strokes

• 屌diǎo🔊

  penis

  9 strokes

• 屏píng🔊

  (standing) screen

  9 strokes

• 昼zhòu🔊

  daytime

  9 strokes

• 展zhǎn🔊

  to spread out

  10 strokes

• 屑xiè🔊

  bits

  10 strokes

• 屙ē🔊

  (dialect) to excrete (urine or feces)

  10 strokes

• 㞗qiú🔊

  (dialect) penis; dick

  10 strokes

• 屐jī🔊

  clogs

  10 strokes

• 屖xī🔊

  variant of 犀, rhinoceros

  10 strokes

• 屘mǎn🔊

  the youngest

  10 strokes

• 屠tú🔊

  to slaughter (animals for food)

  11 strokes

• 㞙niào🔊

  old variant of 尿[niao4]

  11 strokes

• 屛píng🔊

  variant of 屏[ping2]

  11 strokes

• 屝fèi🔊

  coarse

  11 strokes

• 属shǔ🔊

  category

  HSK 3

  12 strokes

• 屡lǚ🔊

  time and again

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 屣xǐ🔊

  slippers

  14 strokes

• 履lǚ🔊

  shoe

  15 strokes

• 屦jù🔊

  sandals

  15 strokes

• 屧xiè🔊

  wooden shoes

  15 strokes

• 𡳞lìn🔊

  (Minnan dialect) male genitals

  15 strokes

• 屪liáo🔊

  penis

  18 strokes

• 屫juē🔊

  old variant of 屩[jue1]

  19 strokes