尸 — Chinese character
尸
shī
body, corpse
- Pinyin
- shī
- Radical
- 44 ⼫ (Corpse)
- Strokes
- 3
- Components
- 丿
- Formation
- pictographic — A man keeled over
- Traditional
- 屍
- Japanese
- 尸 as a kanji
Common words with 尸
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尸体 (屍體) | shī tǐ | corpse; dead body |
| 僵尸 (殭屍) | jiāng shī | gyonshi; jiang shi |
| 死尸 (死屍) | sǐ shī | corpse; dead body |
| 丧尸 (喪屍) | sāng shī | zombie |
| 验尸 (驗屍) | yàn shī | autopsy; postmortem examination |
| 行尸走肉 (行屍走肉) | xíng shī zǒu ròu | walking corpse (idiom); zombie |
| 尸首 (屍首) | shī shou | dead body; corpse (Note: In expressions like 尸首分离 (shī shou fēn lí) or 尸首异处 (shī shou yì chù), decapitation is implied.) |
| 尸骨 (屍骨) | shī gǔ | skeleton of the dead |
| 尸检 (屍檢) | shī jiǎn | autopsy |
| 干尸 (乾屍) | gān shī | desiccated corpse; mummified body |
| 收尸 (收屍) | shōu shī | to collect or retrieve a corpse (for burial or cremation); to claim a body |
| 尸骸 (屍骸) | shī hái | corpse; skeleton |
English words written with 尸
尸 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · I Ching 2 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 12
- Analects 10.16
- Hexagram 7
- Mencius 6A.5
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
- Zhuangzi How to Govern
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
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.