射 (shè)
To shoot; to fire; to shine directly
How 射 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 身 — body
- Traditional
- 射
- Simplified
- 射 (unchanged)
Components
- 身 body
- 寸 thumb
Common words using 射
- 射手 shèshǒu
- bowman
- 射手座 shèshǒuzuò
- Sagittarius (constellation and sign of the zodiac); popular variant of 人馬座|人马座
- 反射 fǎnshè
- to reflect; reflection (from a mirror etc); reflex (i.e. automatic reaction of organism)
- 四射 sìshè
- to radiate all around
- 射擊 shèjī
- to shoot; to fire (a gun)
- 投射 tóushè
- dart; projection
- 折射 zhéshè
- to refract; refraction; to reflect (in the figurative sense: to show the nature of)
- 放射 fàngshè
- to radiate; radioactive
- 映射 yìngshè
- map (math.)
- 注射 zhùshè
- injection; to inject
- 照射 zhàoshè
- to shine on; to light up; to irradiate
- 發射 fāshè
- to shoot (a projectile); to fire (a rocket); to launch
射 in a sentence
太陽太大，陽光直射進來很熱。
Tàiyáng tài dà, yángguāng zhíshè jìnlái hěn rè.
“The sun is too strong; the sunlight shining directly in makes it very hot.”
How common is 射?
射 is the 702nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 82.9% of all running text.
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