Chinese Character Wiki

棋

qí

chess

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 其 represents the sound. Simplified form of 碁.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

其 sound component

其  Sound component

qí

  

its, his, (3p possessive)

Evolution

棋 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
棋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
棋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

棋  

qí

chess; any game similar to chess; chess-like game; a game of chess; CL:盤|盘[pán]; chess piece; CL:個|个[gè],顆|颗[kē]

棋 (棊) 

qí

variant of 棋[qí]

Most common words with 棋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

棋

chess

围棋

the game of Go

下棋

to play chess

棋子

chess piece

象棋

Chinese chess

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g](r)ə

gi

qí

chess, board game


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.1257% of movies

2201st most common character in movies

2089th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+68CB

Shuowen

“棊，博棊。从木，其聲。”


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