qí, jì
ride horseback
Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 奇 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 騎
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to sit astride | ||
horseman | ||
cavalry | ||
to ride a horse | ||
to cycle |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.g(r)aj (~ *[Cə.g](r)aj) | gje | qí | straddle; ride |
*[g](r)aj-s | gjeH | qí | rider |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 19.2696% of movies
1188th most common character in movies
1398th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9A0E |
Shuowen | “騎,跨馬也。从馬,奇聲。” |
Sources
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