噬 — Chinese character
噬
shì
to bite, to gnaw; to snap at
- Pinyin
- shì
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 口 筮
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 筮
- Japanese
- 噬 as a kanji
Common words with 噬
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吞噬 | tūn shì | to swallow; to engulf |
| 噬菌体 (噬菌體) | shì jūn tǐ | bacteriophage; phage |
| 反噬 | fǎn shì | to backfire on; to rebound on |
| 吞噬细胞 (吞噬細胞) | tūn shì xì bāo | phagocyte (cell that ingests and destroys foreign matter) |
| 巨噬细胞 (巨噬細胞) | jù shì xì bāo | macrophage |
| 吞噬作用 | tūn shì zuò yòng | (biology) phagocytosis |
| 噬咬 | shì yǎo | to bite |
| 噬脐莫及 (噬臍莫及) | shì qí mò jí | (lit.) one cannot bite one's own navel (idiom); (fig.) too late for regrets |
English words written with 噬
噬 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 5
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.