Shiyi is a thin, slender doll with fair skin, brown button eyes stitched in a symmetrical Chinese fangge, long, flowing black hair with sharp bangs and the upper half pulled into a ponytail at the back of her head, adorned with a silver hairpin, and sharp black eyebrows. Four silver bobby pins, two on each side of her head, keeps her hair in place.

She wears a traditional slate blue blouse with a high mandarin collar, gold pankous and hems, and white embroidery of bamboo.