矢
arrow; dart; straight; to vow; to swear; old variant of 屎[shi3]
5 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,112 U+77E2
How 矢 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
An arrow pointing upwards
How to remember it
dart · Heisig RSH #998
天 heavens + a drop of
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 矢 as their sound component
These characters all use 矢 (shǐ) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 矢 sound component | shǐ | arrow, dart; to vow, to swear |
| 知 | zhī | to know, to perceive, to comprehend |
| 疾 | jí | sickness, illness, disease; to envy, to hate |
| 雉 | zhì | pheasant; crenellated wall |
| 彘 | zhì | swine |
| 矧 | shěn | interrogative particle; much more, still more |
Words containing 矢
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一矢中的 | yī shǐ zhòng dì | to hit the target with a single shot; to say something spot on (idiom) |
| 无的放矢 | wú dì fàng shǐ | to shoot without aim (idiom); fig. to speak without thinking; firing blindly; to shoot in … |
| 有的放矢 | yǒu dì fàng shǐ | lit. to have a target in mind when shooting one's arrows (idiom); fig. to have a clear obj… |
| 众矢之的 | zhòng shǐ zhī dì | lit. target of a multitude of arrows (idiom); the butt of public criticism; attacked on al… |
| 矢量 | shǐ liàng | (math.) vector |
| 矢口否认 | shǐ kǒu fǒu rèn | to deny flatly |
| 矢志 | shǐ zhì | to take an oath to do sth; to pledge; to vow |
| 永矢 | yǒng shǐ | forever |
| 箭矢 | jiàn shǐ | arrow; CL:支[zhi1] |
| 幺并矢 | yāo bìng shǐ | idemfactor (math.) |