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期

qī

period of time

Phonosemantic compound. 月 represents the meaning and 其 represents the sound.

Components
月 meaning component

月  Meaning component

yuè

  

moon

其 sound component

其  Sound component

qí

  

its, his, (3p possessive)

Evolution

期 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
期 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
期 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
期 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

期  

qī

period of time; date; time limit; a period of time; phase; stage; classifier for issues of a periodical, courses of study; time; term; period; to hope; Taiwan pr. [qí]

期 (朞) 

qī

variant of 期[qī]; cycle

Most common words with 期
Freq.
Word
Meaning

星期

week

期待

to await

期

phase

期间

time

时期

period

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g](r)ə

gi

qī

period of time


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 81.3391% of movies

385th most common character in movies

253rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+671F

Shuowen

“期，會也。从月，其聲。，古文期，从日、丌。”


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