(shì) - vow, oath in Mandarin
shìTraditional: 誓
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Translation
vow, oath
Word origin
A compound of 折 (zhé, to break, here phonetic) over 言 (yán, speech), a spoken pledge that one would sooner break than betray, hence a vow or oath.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 折 (zhé, phonetic) + 言 (yán, speech)
Stroke order
誓
Examples
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He vowed never to drink again.
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I swear to you this is true.
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He made a vow to his wife.
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He swore an oath to the heavens.
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She made a vow.
誓 (shì) means vow or oath, almost always bound in 发誓 (fā shì), to swear.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 誓.
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