尸
(literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies); (literary) to put a corpse on display (after execution); variant of 屍|尸[shi1]
3 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,243 U+5C38
How 尸 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A man keeled over
components: 丿
? unknown part
How to remember it
corpse · Heisig RSH #882
— as a component also called: flag
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 尸 as their sound component
These characters all use 尸 (shī) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尸 sound component | shī | body, corpse |
| 屐 | jī | wooden clogs |
Words containing 尸
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尸山血海 | shī shān xuè hǎi | (lit.) mountains of corpses and oceans of blood (idiom); (fig.) a scene of wholesale slaug… |
| 五马分尸 | wǔ mǎ fēn shī | (idiom) to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form… |
| 行尸走肉 | xíng shī zǒu ròu | walking corpse (idiom); zombie; person who lives only on the material level |
| 尸体 | shī tǐ | corpse; dead body |
| 分尸 | fēn shī | to dismember a corpse |
| 尸罗 | shī luó | sila (Buddhism) |
| 食尸鬼 | shí shī guǐ | ghoul |
| 尸布 | shī bù | pall (casket covering) |
| 尸位素餐 | shī wèi sù cān | to hold a sinecure (idiom) |
| 尸身 | shī shēn | corpse; dead body |
| 死尸 | sǐ shī | corpse; dead body |
| 全尸 | quán shī | intact corpse; dead body with no parts missing |
| 干尸 | gān shī | desiccated corpse; mummified body |
| 尸骨 | shī gǔ | skeleton of the dead |
| 活尸 | huó shī | zombie |
| 收尸 | shōu shī | to collect or retrieve a corpse (for burial or cremation); to claim a body |
| 尸体袋 | shī tǐ dài | body bag |
| 验尸官 | yàn shī guān | coroner |
| 停尸间 | tíng shī jiān | morgue |
| 尸首 | shī shou | dead body; corpse (Note: In expressions like 屍首分離|尸首分离[shi1 shou5 fen1 li2] or 屍首異處|尸首异处[s… |