jì
talent
A man 亻 who can support 支 someone
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 伎
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
trick | ||
artistry | ||
kabuki | ||
to repeat an old stratagem | ||
usual trick |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]reʔ | gjeX | jì | skill |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.5949% of movies
2771st most common character in movies
3332nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+4F0E |
Shuowen | “伎,與也。从人,支聲。《詩》曰:‘人伎忒。’” |
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