shì
verb #22,328

Meanings

  1. 1 to plant
  2. 2 to transplant (seedlings)
  3. 3 to cultivate (literary)

Examples

Nóngfū zài tiánjiān shì yāng.
The farmer was transplanting rice seedlings in the field.
Tā xǐhuān zài yuànzi lǐ shì huā nòng cǎo.
He enjoys tending flowers and plants in the yard.

Tips

register
is a literary/classical word for planting or transplanting. It is rarely used in everyday modern speech, but appears in poetry and in the compound (dill).
memory
also appears in (shí luó), meaning dill — an herb. This is one of its main modern uses.

Stroke Order

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