螫

螫 · shì

poison; sting; poisonous insect

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Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

Mandarin
shì
Cantonese
sik1
Definition source
Unihan kDefinition

poison; sting; poisonous insect

Dictionary definitions & readings

螫 shì · (literary) (of a bee or spider etc) to sting or bite

螫 zhē · (of a bee or spider etc) to sting or bite; (of an irritant) to make (one's eyes or skin) sting

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Readings & dictionary references

HDZ · Mandarin readings and locators
42882.150:shì Source property ↗
XHC 1983 · Mandarin readings and locators
1050.050:shì Source property ↗
TGHZ 2013 · Mandarin readings and locators
338.180:shì Source property ↗
SMSZD 2003 · Mandarin and Cantonese
shì粵sik1 zhē粵sik1 Source property ↗
Japanese · kana
セキ シャク カク シャ さす Source property ↗
Fanqie pairs
施隻 Source property ↗
Cangjie input code
GKLMI Source property ↗
Four-corner lookup codes
4813.6 Source property ↗
Kangxi · dictionary positions
1094.480 Source property ↗
Song Ben Guang Yun · dictionary positions
517.46 Source property ↗
Grammata Serica Recensa · references
0793e Source property ↗

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+87AB
Radical
虫 · 142
Strokes
17
Residual strokes
11
Standard list
通用规范汉字表 · level 2 · #6199

Source record, not an individually reviewed etymological dossier.

Stroke order

17 strokes
螫
Strokes
17
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

17 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Words & connections

Dictionary & examples

History & distinctions

Related forms

No simplified/traditional variant assertion retained.

Historical readings

Middle Chinese
syek · 施隻 · 梗開三入清書 · #3651

PHONO-ML, source line 18988; CC BY 4.0. Source-generated reading categories, not modern pronunciation. Attribution & limitations.

Sources & reference

Evidence

Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3 · Official-list coverage

Exact Unihan properties
kCihaiT
1197.107
kCowles
544
kDaeJaweon
1559.210
kFennIndex
22.02 457.03
kGSR
0793e
kHanYu
42882.150
kIRGDaeJaweon
1559.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
42882.150
kIRGKangXi
1094.480
kKangXi
1094.480
kMatthews
5826
kMeyerWempe
274
kMorohashi
33491
kNelson
4180
kSBGY
517.46
kSMSZD2003Index
619.05
kCangjie
GKLMI
kFenn
423F
kFourCornerCode
4813.6
kHKGlyph
3643
kMojiJoho
MJ023662
kPhonetic
1151
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kIICore
AGTHM
kIRG_GSource
G0-7327
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C1B1
kIRG_JSource
J0-6A2E
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-7271
kIRG_KSource
K2-5C7E
kIRG_TSource
T1-753C
kRSUnicode
142.11
kTotalStrokes
17
kBigFive
C1B1
kCCCII
21572A
kCNS1986
1-753C
kCNS1992
1-753C
kEACC
21572A
kGB0
8307
kGB1
8307
kJis0
7414
kMainlandTelegraph
5826
kTGH
2013:6199
kTaiwanTelegraph
5826
kXerox
264:306
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+6547+142.6.11
kCantonese
sik1
kDefinition
poison; sting; poisonous insect
kFanqie
施隻
kHanyuPinyin
42882.150:shì
kJapanese
セキ シャク カク シャ さす
kJapaneseKun
SASU
kJapaneseOn
SEKI KAKU
kMandarin
shì
kSMSZD2003Readings
shì粵sik1 zhē粵sik1
kTGHZ2013
338.180:shì
kXHC1983
1050.050:shì
kSpecializedSemanticVariant
U+8457<kFenn

Sentences in context

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Structure & connections

0.10
4dictionary records using 螫0forms using this shape1attributed sound links
⿱ Above / below

Shape description
赦 above 虫 · the shape used in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, North Korea
Source notation ^⿱赦虫$(GHTJKP)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿱赦虫$(GHTJKP)

All alternatives are retained. Only the first description drives component search and graphical links. Counts describe this snapshot, not frequency. Evidence and method.