qí
pray
Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 阝 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 祁
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
large | ||
Mt Qilian in Qinhai | ||
Qilian county in Haibei Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海北藏族自治州[HǎiběiZàngzúzìzhìzhōu], Qinghai | ||
Qixian county in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中[Jìnzhōng], Shanxi | ||
Qimen county in Huangshan 黃山|黄山[Huángshān], Anhui |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]rij | gij | qí | (place name) |
*[g]rə[j] | gij | qí | great, numerous |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3477th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+7941 |
Shuowen | “祁,太原縣。从邑,示聲。” |
Sources
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