Chinese Character Wiki

萁

qí

kind of grasses

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

plant

其 sound component

其  Sound component

qí

  

its, his, (3p possessive)

Evolution

萁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
萁 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
萁 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
萁 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
萁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

萁  

qí

kind of grasses; stalks of pulse

Most common words with 萁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

萁

stalks of pulse

煮豆燃萁

burning beanstalks to cook the beans (idiom); to cause internecine strife

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6321st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+8401

Shuowen

“萁，豆莖也。从艸，其聲。”


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