逝

shì

verb #9,839

Meanings

Shíguāng fēishì.

Time flies by.

Tā de fùqīn yǐjīng shìshì le.

His father has passed away.

Shìqù de qīngchūn yīqùbùfǎn.

Lost youth never returns.

逝 is literary and respectful — used for dignified references to death (逝世) or poetic descriptions of passing time (飞逝). Never used casually.

history

From Confucius's famous line 逝者如斯夫 — 「What passes is like this river, flowing day and night」 — one of the most quoted lines in classical Chinese.

逝 shì