qī
sorrowful
Grieving 心 for a dead brother 戚; 戚 also provides the pronunciation
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 慼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
a relative (i.e. family relation) | ||
relative | ||
to visit relatives | ||
intimate | ||
to be closely related |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-tʰˤiwk | tshek | qī | anxiously thoughtful |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.3271% of movies
2340th most common character in movies
2316th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+617C |
Shuowen | “慽，憂也。从心，戚聲。” |
Sources
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