Chinese Character Wiki

萋

qī

luxuriant foliage

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

grass

妻 sound component

妻  Sound component

qī, qì

  

wife

Evolution

萋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
萋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

萋  

qī

luxuriant foliage; crowded; Celosia argentea; luxuriant

Most common words with 萋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

萋

luxuriant

萋萋

luxuriant

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[tsʰ]ˤəj

tshej

qī

ample, rich, luxuriant


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5734th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+840B

Shuowen

“萋，艸盛。从艸，妻聲。《詩》曰：‘菶菶萋萋。’”


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