qì
receptacle
Origin unclear.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[kʰ]r[ə][t]-s | khijH | qì | vessel; instrument |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 63.3510% of movies
417th most common character in movies
441st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+5668 |
Shuowen | “器，皿也。象器之口，犬所以守之。” |
Sources
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