noun #49,704

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) shoes, especially slippers or worn-out shoes

Examples

Tā bǎ fùguì kàn de xiàng tuō xié yíyàng qīng.
He cast aside wealth and rank as easily as taking off a worn shoe.

Tips

history
is a classical word for shoes (often worn-out ones or slippers) and is not used independently in modern Chinese, where the everyday word is . It is best known from the image of discarding something 'like taking off a shoe' (弃如敝屣). Built on the radical.
register
Classical and literary only. Use in modern Chinese.

Components

radical
shī
body; the body-form radical
The radical (a bent human figure) tops and is its indexing radical, common in characters about the body and what it wears.
phonetic
to move; to relocate
The element supplies the sound, and its 'walking / moving' sense suits a word for footwear.

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