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shě

house

How it’s built

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 余 represents the sound. 口 (mouth) indicates that the character is only "mouthed", i.e. only used for its phonetic value.

meaning

mouth

sound

extra; remaining The pronunciation of 舍 was similar to 余 in old Chinese, but they no longer sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes.

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