屎
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feces; excrement; a stool; (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 尸 +6
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 屎
- Common rank
- #1,899
- Unicode
- U+5C4E
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Formation & memory
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Words with 屎
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鸟不拉屎 | (lit.) (a place where) birds don't defecate; (fig.) (of a place) remote and desolate | |
| 狗改不了吃屎 | lit. a dog can't stop himself from eating shit (idiom); fig. bad habits are hard to change | |
| 拉不出屎来怨茅房 | lit. to blame the toilet because one is having difficulty completing a bowel movement (idi… | |
| 吃屎都赶不上热乎的 | (lit.) if you were eating warm shit, it'd be stone cold by the time you finished it (sayin… | |
| 石屎森林 | (dialect) concrete jungle | |
| 一把屎一把尿 | to have endured all sorts of hardships (to raise one's children) (idiom) | |
| 狗屎运 | (coll.) (other people's) dumb luck | |
| 一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥 | lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom); fig. one bad apple c… | |
| 狗吃屎 | to fall flat on one's face (vulgar) | |
| 占着茅坑不拉屎 | lit. to occupy a latrine but not shit (proverb); fig. to be a dog in the manger | |
| 一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤 | lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom); fig. one bad apple can… | |
| 拉屎 | to defecate; to shit; to crap | |
| 眼屎 | sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye) | |
| 石屎 | (Cantonese) concrete | |
| 屎意 | an urge to defecate | |
| 扣屎盆子 | to make a scapegoat of sb; to defame; to slander | |
| 一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅粥 | see 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥|一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥[yi1 li4 lao3 shu3 shi3 huai4 le5 yi1 guo1 zhou1] | |
| 耳屎 | earwax; cerumen | |
| 懒驴上磨屎尿多 | (proverb) A lazy person will find many excuses to delay working; lit. When a lazy donkey i… | |
| 骑脖子拉屎 | (lit.) to take a dump while riding on sb's shoulders (saying); (fig.) to treat sb like gar… |