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饰

飾
shì
verb #10,082

Meanings

  1. 1 to decorate
  2. 2 ornament
  3. 3 to conceal

Examples

HSK 4
她戴的首饰很少。
Tā dài de shǒushi hěnshǎo.
She wears very little jewelry.
HSK 5
她喜欢用小饰品装饰房间。
Tā xǐhuan yòng xiǎo shìpǐn zhuāngshì fángjiān.
She loves to decorate her room with little ornaments.
HSK 7-9
别掩饰自己的错误，承认吧。
Bié yǎnshì zìjǐ de cuòwù, chéngrèn ba.
Don't try to cover up your mistakes; admit them.

Tips

memory
饣 (food) + 巾 (cloth) - dressing up a serving vessel with cloth to make it presentable.

Components

radical
饣 shí
food (radical form of 食)
饣 is the left-side form of 食 (food, eat) - historically marking objects of serving and presentation. The link to decoration here is oblique: dressing a vessel or table for a banquet. The radical also indexes 饰 with 饭 meal, 饮 drink, 馆 hall.
semantic
巾 jīn
cloth; cloth-like wrap
The right side is a fused person-and-cloth shape: a small two-stroke person-residue compressed onto 巾 (cloth). 饰 originally meant rubbing a surface clean with a cloth and dressing it up - the cloth element anchors that meaning. Today 饰 covers ornaments and embellishment generally.

Stroke Order

饰 shì