qí
dark grey. variegated. superlative
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 綦
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Qijiang suburban county in Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan | ||
Qijiang suburban county in Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan | ||
dark gray |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g](r)ə | gi | qí | gray or bluish-black |
*[g](r)ə | gi | qí | sandal cord |
*[g](r)ə-s | giH | qí | sandal cord |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5599th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+7DA6 |
Shuowen | “綥,帛蒼艾色。从糸,畀聲。《詩》曰:‘縞衣綥巾,未嫁女所服。’一曰不借綥。綦,綥或从其。” |
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