石

#1390 by frequency

Shí

surname Shi; abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1], the capital of Hebei; rock; stone; stone inscription; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

dàn

dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗[dou3]; one hundred liters; ancient pr. [shi2]

Examples

一石二鸟。

To kill two birds with one stone.

该国盛产石油。

That country abounds in oil.

Learn 石 the way it sticks: in sentences built from words you already know, scheduled so you review right before you'd forget.

Start your free week

Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.