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仕

shì

Character

What 仕 means

1. to serve as an official
2. an official
3. the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" {将|jiàng}

Example sentences

• 每年，这个机构组织很多会议的志工挨家挨户地卖菲仕兰书。
  Měinián, zhège jīgòu zǔzhī hěn duō huìyì de zhìgōng āijiā'āihù de mài fēi shì lán shū.
  Every year, the organisation organises a number of meetings of volunteers who go door-to-door to sell Frisian books.

Words starting with 仕

• 仕途shì túofficial career (formal)
• 仕女shì nǚcourt lady; palace maid; traditional painting of beautiful women
• 仕宦shì huàn(literary) to serve as an official

Words containing 仕

• 入仕rù shì(literary) to become an official
• 出仕chū shìto take up an official post
• 致仕zhì shìto retire from a government post (old)
• 卡仕达kǎ shì dá(loanword) custard
• 安达仕Ān dá shìAndaz (hotel brand)
• 爱马仕Ài mǎ shìHermès (brand)
• 学而优则仕xué ér yōu zé shìone who is successful in one's studies, can become an official (idiom)

Characters built on 士

These share the phonetic component 士 (shì), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 喜xǐto be fond of; to like; to enjoy
• 吉jílucky; giga- (meaning billion or 10^9)
• 志zhìaspiration; ambition; the will

Characters that look like 仕

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 他tā(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his…
• 任rènto assign; to appoint; to take up a post
• 伙huǒ(bound form) meals (as in 伙食; variant of 伙
• 休xiūto rest; to stop doing sth for a period of time; to cease
• 仔zǐ(bound form) (of domestic animals or fowl) young; (bound form) fine; detailed
• 伍wǔsquad of five soldiers; to associate with; five (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

Sounds the same

Read shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 是to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true…
• 事matter; thing; item
• 视(literary, or bound form) to look at
• 室room; work unit; grave
• 世life; age; generation
• 市market; city; municipality (administrative unit)
• 试to test; to try; experiment
• 式type; form; pattern
• 示to show; to reveal
• 适to fit; suitable; proper
• 士member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor
• 释to explain; to release; Buddha (abbr. for 释迦牟尼