qī
battle-axe, sorrow, grief, relative
Pictograph of a battle axe having spiked teeth on its blade.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 戚
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
a relative (i.e. family relation) | ||
relative | ||
to visit relatives | ||
intimate | ||
to be closely related |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.tʰˤiwk | tshek | qī | (in 'toad') |
*s.tʰˤiwk | tshek | qī | relatives |
*s.tʰˤiwk | tshek | qī | kind of battle axe |
*s.tʰˤiwk | tshek | qī | worried; sad; depressed |
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 | 11 |
Unicode | U+621A |
Shuowen | “戚，戉也。从戉，尗聲。” |
Sources
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