qǐ
fine thin silk
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 奇 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʰ(r)a[j]ʔ | khjeX | qǐ | patterned silk |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3565th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7DBA |
Shuowen | “綺,文繒也。从糸,奇聲。” |
Sources
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