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炻

shí

Character

What 炻 means

1. stoneware

Words starting with 炻

• 炻器shí qìstoneware

Characters built on 石

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

• 磁címagnetic; magnetism; porcelain
• 矶jībreakwater; jetty
• 碧bìgreen jade; bluish green; blue
• 砌qìto build by laying bricks or stones
• 砾lì(bound form) gravel; small stone
• 硒xīselenium (chemistry)
• 矽xī(Taiwan) silicon (chemistry); Taiwan pr. xì
• 砒pīarsenic

Sounds the same

Read shí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 时o'clock; time; when
• 识to know; knowledge; Taiwan pr. shì
• 十ten; 10
• 实real; true; honest
• 石rock; stone; stone inscription
• 食to eat; food; animal feed
• 蚀to nibble away at sth; to eat into; to erode
• 什ten (used in fractions, writing checks etc); assorted; miscellaneous
• 拾to pick up; to collate or arrange; ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
• 莳used in 莳萝
• 祏stone shrine
• 湜clear water; pure