qī
sorrowful
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 妻 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.5057% of movies
3175th most common character in movies
2352nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+60BD |
Shuowen | “悽,痛也。从心,妻聲。” |
Sources
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