歃 — Chinese character
歃
shà
to drink to an oath
- Pinyin
- shà
- Radical
- 76 ⽋ (Lack)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 臿 欠
- Formation
- pictophonetic — breathe; meaning component 欠; sound component 臿
- Japanese
- 歃 as a kanji
Common words with 歃
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 歃血 | shà xuè | to smear one's lips with the blood of a sacrifice as a means of pledging allegiance (old) |
| 歃血为盟 (歃血為盟) | shà xuè wéi méng | to smear the lips with blood when taking an oath (idiom); to swear a sacred oath |
歃 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.