jī, qǐ
examine
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 稽
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
comical | ||
inspection | ||
to inspect | ||
complete nonsense (idiom) | ||
nonsense |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤij | kej | jī | accord with |
*kˤij | kej | jī | cultivate (field) |
*kˤij | kej | jī | calculate |
*[kʰ]ˤijʔ | khejX | qǐ | bow the head to the ground |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.0959% of movies
2309th most common character in movies
2427th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+7A3D |
Shuowen | “稽,留止也。从,从尤,旨聲。” |
Sources
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