杞 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

qǐ

willow

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 己 represents the sound.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù

tree

己 Sound component

jǐ

self

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

Modern

Definitions

qǐ

willow; medlar tree; a small feudal state (Qi); Chinese wolfberry shrub (Lycium chinense)

Qǐ

Qi, a Zhou Dynasty vassal state; surname Qi

Most common words with 杞

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	杞人忧天	man of Qǐ fears the sky falling (idiom); groundless fears
	枸杞	genus Lycium
	杞	surname Qi
	杞县	Qi county in Kaifeng 開封\|开封[Kāifēng], Henan
	杞国	the State of Qǐ in modern Qǐ county 杞縣\|杞县, Henan (c. 1500-445 BC), a small vassal state of Shang and Western Zhou for most of its existence