qí
man of sixty
Phonosemantic compound. 老 represents the meaning and 旨 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 耆
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
man of sixty or seventy | ||
Yanqi county in Xinjiang | ||
Yenji Xuyzu aptonom nahiyisi or Yanqi Hui autonomous county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[BāyīnguōléngMěnggǔZìzhìzhōu], Xinjiang | ||
Yanqi Hui Autonomous County in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[BāyīnguōléngMěnggǔZìzhìzhōu], Xinjiang |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]rij | gij | qí | old |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3779th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+8006 |
Shuowen | “耆,老也。从老省,旨聲。” |
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