qí
abdominal area of crab
Phonosemantic compound. 月 represents the meaning and 齊 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]ˤ[ə]j | dzej | qí | navel |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.7299% of movies
2971st most common character in movies
3830th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+81CD |
Shuowen | “,肶也。从肉,齊聲。” |
Sources
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