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兘

shǐ

Character

What 兘 means

1. old variant of {始|shǐ}

Sounds the same

Read shǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 使to make; to cause; to enable
• 始to begin; to start; then
• 史history; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China
• 驶(of a vehicle, horse etc) to go fast; to speed; (of a vehicle) to run; to go…
• 屎feces; excrement; a stool; (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)
• 矢arrow; dart; straight
• 豕hog; swine
• 乨old variant of 始
• 宩old variant of 屎

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