Meaning
(phonetic); this
Chinese: 文言指示词，也常见于音译名。
Hear the Four Tones
The same syllable “si” becomes a different word in each tone. 斯 is the 1st tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.
Stroke Order
Tap Animate to watch the strokes in order, or Practice to trace it yourself.
Common Words
- 斯文sī wénrefined; educate; cultured; intellectual
- 如斯rú sī(literary) in this way; so
- 高斯gāo sīgauss, unit of magnetic induction
- 法西斯fǎ xī sīfascist (loanword)
- 斯事体大sī shì tǐ dàsee 兹事体大
More Words
Example Sentence
他是个斯文的人。Tā shì ge sī wén de rén.He is a refined person.
他Tāhe是shìis个ge(measure word)斯文sī wénrefined的deof人rénperson。
Go deeper
Where this character comes from
其 (sound) plus 斤 (axe): originally ‘to split’. In classical Chinese it means ‘this; then’, and today it mainly transliterates foreign sounds (斯文; 俄罗斯 Russia).
A way to remember it
A literary ‘this’; and the ‘-s’ sound in 俄罗斯 (Russia).