Character: 示
Modern (Beijing) reading: shì qí
Preclassic Old Chinese: g(h)ijʔs g(h)ej
Classic Old Chinese: g(h)ijh
Western Han Chinese: g(h)jǝjh
Eastern Han Chinese: g(h)jǝś
Early Postclassic Chinese: g(h)jiś
Middle Postclassic Chinese: g(h)jìj
Late Postclassic Chinese: g(h)jì
Middle Chinese: źì gje
Fanqie: 舌肆 [a] 勤移 [b]
Rhyme class: 寘 [a] 支 [b]
English meaning : ancestral tablet
Russian meaning[s]: указывать, показывать; объявлять, уведомлять (письменно); изъявлять; объявление; указание; уведомление
Shuowen gloss: 天垂象. 見吉凶. 所以示人也. 從二. 三垂日月星也. 觀乎天文. 以察時變. 示神事也. 凡示之屬皆從示.
Comments: MC ź- is irregular (due to confusion of ź- and ʒ́-).
Radical: 113
Four-angle index: 8164
Karlgren code: 0553 a-g
