What 寔 means
Context decides: “truly” or “this/that.” In the Shijing line about unequal fate, commentaries preserve both readings, and dictionaries connect 寔 with 是.
The verified trail starts with that classical text. As of 2026, no checked source establishes an inventor, oracle-bone or bronze ancestor, or separate practical, ritual, or political origin; Shuowen analyzes it as 宀 是 with 是 as phonetic.
The tradition also writes 實/实 for “truly,” while Japanese dictionaries preserve まことに and これ. So treat 寔 as a literary survivor for quotation and philology, not modern writing.
Literary and archaic; keep it to quotation, philological notes, or deliberate classical styling.
If you mean ordinary 是 or 实, use that character.
Who writes 寔
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Don't confuse it with
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實 / 实 Shares the “truly” reading, but remains a distinct character.
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How to type or find 寔
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- shi · shí · shoku · jiki · まことに · これ · 实 · 實
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
寔\5BD4Codes and encoding1 code points
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