Level III of XX on the frequency path
Frequency rank 383 / 2,608
Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.
More common than 象 (Elephant), less common than 器 (Container).
The character looks like a person carrying a scroll and a stick — it resembles a historian walking with their records, chronicling history as they go.
史 is rank 383 of 2,608 in published Japanese.
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