Character: 室
Modern (Beijing) reading: shì
Preclassic Old Chinese: tit
Classic Old Chinese: tit
Western Han Chinese: tjǝt
Eastern Han Chinese: ćǝt
Early Postclassic Chinese: ćit
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćit
Late Postclassic Chinese: śit
Middle Chinese: śit
English meaning : house, hall
Russian meaning[s]: 1) комната; кабинет; камера; здание, дом; 2) жена; жениться
Shuowen gloss: 實也.從**.至聲.室屋皆從至.所止也. [338]
Comments: One of the cases of irregular development OC *t- > MC ś- (normally *ćit would be expected).
Radical: 40
Four-angle index: 276
Karlgren code: 0413 j-l
Shijing occurrences: 6.1, 10.3, 15.3, 17.2, 40.2, 40.3, 50.1_, 58.5
