戺
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Meaning: door pivot
💡 Think 'shed' (shì) where the door pivots on a stone.
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Character Story & Explanation
Discovered in oracle bone inscriptions, 戺 (shì) originally depicted a door pivot—the stone socket that allows ancient Chinese doors to rotate. It symbolizes a threshold, both literal and metaphorical. Rarely used today, it survives in classical texts to denote the base of a door or the pivot point of change.
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