奎 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

kuí

stride of man

Phonosemantic compound. 大 represents the meaning and 圭 represents the sound.

Components

大 Meaning component

dà, dài

big

圭 Sound component

guī

jade pointed at top

Evolution

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

kuí

stride of man; one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions; crotch; 15th of the 28th constellations of Chinese astronomy

Most common words with 奎

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	奎	crotch
	杰奎琳	Jacqueline (name)
	奎宁	quinine (loanword)
	奎屯	Kuitun city or Küytun shehiri in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州\|伊犁哈萨克自治州[YīlíHāsàkèzìzhìzhōu], Xinjiang
	奎屯市	Kuitun city or Küytun shehiri in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州\|伊犁哈萨克自治州[YīlíHāsàkèzìzhìzhōu], Xinjiang