俟 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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qí, sì

wait for

A person 亻 waiting for something to finish 矣; 矣 also provides the pronunciation

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén

person

矣 Sound Meaning component

yǐ

particle of completed action

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

俟

qí

wait for, wait until, as soon as; see 万俟[Mòqí]

俟

sì

(literary) to wait for

俟 (竢)

sì

variant of 俟[sì]

Most common words with 俟

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	俟	polysyllabic surname Moqi
	万俟	polysyllabic surname Moqi

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*s-[ɢ]rəʔ	zriX	sì	wait
*s.[ɢ]rəʔ	zriX	sì	move on

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3605th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	9
Unicode	U+4FDF
Shuowen	“俟，大也。从人，矣聲。《詩》曰：‘伾伾俟俟。’”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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