jī, qī
full year
Original meaning:
Variant of 期. Phonosemantic compound. 月 represents the meaning and 其 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 81.3391% of movies
385th most common character in movies
253rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+671E |
Shuowen | “期,會也。从月,其聲。,古文期,从日、丌。” |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

