qī
perch
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 妻 represents the sound.
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
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-nˤər | sej | qī | bird's nest |
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 | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+68F2 |
Shuowen | “西,鳥在巢上,象形。日在西方而鳥棲,故因以為東西之西。” |
Sources
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