矢
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arrow; dart; straight; to vow; to swear; old variant of 屎[shi3]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 矢 itself
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 矢
- Common rank
- #3,112
- Unicode
- U+77E2
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
dart · Heisig RSH #998
天 heavens + a drop of
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 矢
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一矢中的 | to hit the target with a single shot; to say something spot on (idiom) | |
| 无的放矢 | to shoot without aim (idiom); fig. to speak without thinking; firing blindly; to shoot in … | |
| 有的放矢 | lit. to have a target in mind when shooting one's arrows (idiom); fig. to have a clear obj… | |
| 众矢之的 | lit. target of a multitude of arrows (idiom); the butt of public criticism; attacked on al… | |
| 矢量 | (math.) vector | |
| 矢口否认 | to deny flatly | |
| 矢志 | to take an oath to do sth; to pledge; to vow | |
| 永矢 | forever | |
| 箭矢 | arrow; CL:支[zhi1] | |
| 幺并矢 | idemfactor (math.) |
Sound family
These characters use 矢 as their sound component — compare how they read.