jī
halter
A leather 革 halter used to control 罒a horse 馬
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 羈
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to detain | ||
trammels | ||
bridle | ||
unruly | ||
wanton and unrestrained (idiom); dissolute |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kraj | kje | jī | bridle, halter |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.2745% of movies
2994th most common character in movies
3297th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 24 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7F88 |
Shuowen | “,馬絡頭也。从网,从馽。馽,馬絆也。,或从革。” |
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