Chinese symbol for “feces”
屎
shǐ
feces; excrement; a stool; (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for feces is 屎 (shǐ), defined as: feces; excrement; a stool; (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “feces”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 屎.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拉屎 | lā shǐ | to defecate; to shit; to crap |
| 狗屎 | gǒu shǐ | canine excrement; dog poo |
| 鼻屎 | bí shǐ | booger; dried nasal mucus |
| 狗吃屎 | gǒu chī shǐ | to fall flat on one's face (vulgar) |
| 石屎 | shí shǐ | (Cantonese) concrete |
| 眼屎 | yǎn shǐ | sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “feces”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.