Chinese Character Wiki
季

jì

season

Original meaning: 

youngest, small grains

禾 represents short stalks of grain, 子 represents a young child. Based on the original meaning "youngest, small grains". The meaning later shifted to "crops", and "season".

Components
禾 meaning component

禾  Meaning component

hé

  

grain stalk

子 meaning component

子  Meaning component

zi, zǐ

  

child

Evolution

季 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
季 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
季 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
季 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
季 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

季  

jì

quarter of year; season; surname; the last month of a season; fourth or youngest amongst brothers; classifier for seasonal crop yields

季  

Jì

surname Ji

Most common words with 季
Freq.
Word
Meaning

季

season

赛季

season (sports)

季度

quarter of a year

季节

time

冬季

winter

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

悸

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʷi[t]-s

kjwijH

jì

youngest


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 61.3327% of movies

854th most common character in movies

1279th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5B63

Shuowen

“季，少偁也。从子，从稚省，稚亦聲。”


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