石 (shí): stone
石 (shí) is a Chinese character meaning “stone.” Classified as HSK Level 5 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 厂 (structural) and 口 (structural). It ranks #414 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 石 a rock 口 at the base of a cliff 厂. Its radical form 石 (stone) appears in many related characters such as 确 (què, certain, true), 碗 (wǎn, bowl), 碰 (pèng, to touch, to bump).
Definitions
- stone
Etymology & Origin
ideographicA rock 口 at the base of a cliff 厂
Decomposition: ⿸厂口 (layout: surround-from-upper-left)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 石
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 钻石noun | zuàn shí | diamond |
| 岩石noun | yán shí | (geology) rock |
| 宝石noun | bǎo shí | precious stone |
| 陨石noun | yǔn shí | meteorite |
| 大理石 | dà lǐ shí | marble |
| 石膏noun | shí gāo | gypsum CaSO4·2(H2O) |
| 水落石出 | shuǐ luò shí chū | (lit.) as the water recedes, the rocks appear (idiom) |
| 红宝石 | hóng bǎo shí | ruby |
| 石棉noun | shí mián | asbestos |
| 石块noun | shí kuài | stone |
| 铁石心肠phrase | tiě shí xīn cháng | to have a heart of stone |
| 石板noun | shí bǎn | slab |
| 绊脚石noun | bàn jiǎo shí | stumbling block |
| 矿石noun | kuàng shí | ore |
| 礁石noun | jiāo shí | reef |
石 appears in 106 compound words: 37 as the first character, 60 as the last, and 3 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 石 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (25)
a stone sinks in the ocean; to receive no response; to never hear back from someone or about something
a stone sinks in the ocean; to receive no response; to never hear back from someone or about something
Showing 12 of 25 idioms containing 石.
Example Sentences
石头可以用来建造房屋，是一种天然的建筑材料。
Shítou kěyǐ yòng lái jiànzào fángwū, shì yì zhǒng tiānrán de jiànzhù cáiliào.
Stones can be used to build houses; they are a natural building material.
以为黄金!贼闯宅偷宝盒 他:是我肾结石
yǐ wéi huáng jīn ! zéi chuǎng zhái tōu bǎo hé tā : shì wǒ shèn jié shí
Think it's gold! Thieves break into the house and steal treasure boxes He: It's my kidney stones
钢厂赴美设点开出第一枪 API石油钢管大厂天声将斥资13亿元前进德州
gāng hǎn fù měi shè diǎn kāi chū dì yī qiāng A P I shí yóu gāng guǎn dà hǎn tiān shēng jiāng chì zī 1 3 yì yuán qián jìn dé zhōu
Steel mills went to the United States to set up a point and fired the first shot API petroleum steel pipe manufacturer Tiansheng will spend 1.3 billion yuan to advance to Texas
(新春走基层)从塔里木河到钱塘江:一颗“石榴籽”的..
xīn chūn zǒu jī céng cóng tǎ lǐ mù hé dào qián táng jiāng yī kē shí 榴 籽 de . .
(Chinese New Year) From Tarim River to Qiantang River: A "Pomegranate Seed" of...
超标近2000倍 日本石川县一处地下水检出高浓度有..
chāo biāo jìn bèi rì běn shí chuān xiàn yī chǔ dì xià shuǐ jiǎn chū gāo nóng dù yǒu . .
Nearly 2,000 times the limit, a groundwater in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, was found to have high concentrations of...
斯洛伐克政府宣布进入国家石油紧急状态
sī 洛 fá kè zhèng fǔ xuān bù jìn rù guó jiā shí yóu jǐn jí zhuàng tài
The Slovak government has declared a national oil emergency.
假的钻石和真的钻石有什么分别？
Jiǎ de zuànshí hé zhēn de zuànshí yǒu shénme fēnbié?
What is the difference between imitation and real diamonds?
谁能融化你的铁石心肠？
Shéi néng rónghuà nǐ de tiěshíxīncháng?
Who could melt that stone heart of yours?
谁朝我的狗扔的石子？
Shéi cháo wǒ de gǒu rēng de shí zǐ?
Who threw a stone at my dog?
一块岩石从上面落下。
Yī kuài yánshí cóng shàngmiàn luòxià.
A rock fell from above.
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