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葹

shī

Character

What 葹 means

1. Xanthium strumarium

Sounds the same

Read shī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 师teacher; master; expert
• 诗poem; poetry; verse
• 失to lose; to miss; to fail
• 施(bound form) to put into effect (regulations etc); to distribute (alms etc)…
• 湿moist; wet
• 狮(bound form) lion
• 尸(literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies)…
• 虱louse
• 蓍yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
• 浉Shi, name of river in Xinyang 信阳, Henan
• 絁rough, indelicate silk
• 邿place name

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• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shī correctly.
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