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Variants
Phonetic
Semantic
Apparent
卋㔺 卅
Mandarin
shi4
English
Definitions
world; era; generation; age; life; lifetime; a lifetime
Mnemonic
Thirty 卅 years: a generation
Etymology
Notes
Early form resembles a foot 止 with three places marked with a dot; probably a drawing of leaves on a tree: compare 枼 which most likely preserves original meaning of this one