Chinese Character Wiki

冀

jì

hope for

Phonosemantic compound. 北 represents the meaning and 異 represents the sound.

Components
北 meaning component

北  Meaning component

běi

  

north

異 sound component

異  Sound component

yì

  

different

Evolution

冀 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
冀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
冀 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
冀 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

冀  

jì

hope for; wish; Hebei province; (literary) to hope for

冀  

Jì

short name for Hebei 河北 province; surname Ji

Most common words with 冀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

冀

surname Ji

冀州

Jishou county level city in Hengshui 衡水[Héng​shuǐ], Hebei

晋察冀

Shanxi 山西, Chahar 察哈爾|察哈尔 and Hebei 河北 (three provinces of the Republic of China in the period 1912-1936)

期冀

to wish

冀州市

Jishou county level city in Hengshui 衡水[Héng​shuǐ], Hebei

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

驥 骥

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]rə[t]-s (dial. < *[k]rək-s ?)

kijH

jì

hope


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2550th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+5180

Shuowen

“冀，北方州也。从北，異聲。”


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