史
shǐTraditional: 史
Translation
history, historical records
Word origin
An ideograph showing a hand holding a tablet or record, originally depicting the official scribe who kept records, hence the meaning of history.
- Origin
- ideograph
- Root
- 又 (yòu, hand) holding a record
Stroke order
史
Examples
。
This book is about the history of China.
古。
He is very interested in ancient history.
座。
This city has a very long history.
。
The teacher asked us to read a book of historical records.
段。
This is a piece of history that should not be forgotten.
史 (shǐ) means history and, in its older sense, the official who recorded events. It appears most often inside the compound 历史 (lìshǐ) but stands alone in classical and formal usage.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 史.
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