Chinese Character Wiki

栖

qī

perch

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 西 represents the sound. Simplified form of 棲.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

西 sound component

西  Sound component

xī

  

west

Evolution

栖 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

栖 (棲) 

qī

perch; roost; stay; to perch; to rest (of birds); to dwell; to live; to stay

Most common words with 栖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

栖

to perch

栖息

dwelling

栖身

to stay at

两栖

amphibious

栖息地

habitat

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-nˤər

sej

qī

roost (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.0984% of movies

3001st most common character in movies

2460th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

棲

Unicode

U+6816


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