石 shí, dàn — stone, rock; (dàn) a traditional dry measure for grain
2 readings — the first is the most common.
stone, rock; (dàn) a traditional dry measure for grain
Pinyin
- shí (second tone, rising)most common
- dàn (fourth tone, falling)
stone, rock; (dàn) a traditional dry measure for grain
Character breakdown
Ideographic description
⿸厂口The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.
- 厂meaning partno entry yetA cliff with an overhanging ledge.
- 口shape partNot a mouth: the block of rock that has come down and is lying at the foot of the cliff.
Mnemonic
A boulder lying under a cliff — the square is a lump of rock, not a mouth. It heads its own section of the dictionary, where everything is either made of stone or ground with it: 硬 hard, 碗 a bowl, 破 to break. The everyday noun takes a suffix, 石头, and the second reading dàn belongs to old measures of grain.
A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.
Words containing 石
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