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棋
棋
Translingual
Han character
棋 (radical 75 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木廿一金 (DTMC), four-corner 44981, composition ⿰木其)
References
- KangXi: page 532, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14922
- Dae Jaweon: page 920, character 11
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1224, character 4
- Unihan data for U+68CB
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
棋 | |
|---|---|---|
| alt. forms | ||
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 棋
| |
|---|---|
| Oracle bone script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (其) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 基 | *kɯ |
| 箕 | *kɯ |
| 朞 | *kɯ |
| 稘 | *kɯ |
| 萁 | *kɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 期 | *kɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 諅 | *kɯ, *ɡɯs |
| 其 | *kɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 錤 | *kɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 諆 | *kɯ, *kʰɯ |
| 欺 | *kʰɯ |
| 娸 | *kʰɯ |
| 魌 | *kʰɯ |
| 僛 | *kʰɯ |
| 唭 | *kʰɯs |
| 棋 | *ɡɯ |
| 旗 | *ɡɯ |
| 淇 | *ɡɯ |
| 祺 | *ɡɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 琪 | *ɡɯ |
| 騏 | *ɡɯ |
| 綦 | *ɡɯ |
| 麒 | *ɡɯ |
| 蜞 | *ɡɯ |
| 綨 | *ɡɯ |
| 蜝 | *ɡɯ |
| 棊 | *ɡɯ |
| 碁 | *ɡɯ |
| 鯕 | *ɡɯ |
| 踑 | *ɡɯ |
| 藄 | *ɡɯ |
| 櫀 | *ɡɯ |
| 璂 | *ɡɯ |
| 禥 | *ɡɯ |
| 惎 | *ɡɯs |
| 帺 | *ɡɯs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡɯ) : semantic 木 (“wooden”) + phonetic 其 (OC *kɯ, *ɡɯ).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
- Wade-Giles: ch'ih2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: kei4
- Yale: kèih
- Cantonese Pinyin: kei4
- IPA (key): /kʰei̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: gì
- IPA (key): /ki⁵³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
- Tâi-lô: kî
- Phofsit Daibuun: kii
- IPA (Xiamen): /ki²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ki²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /ki²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: xxi (T3)
- IPA (key): /ʑ̻i²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 棋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
qí |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ gi › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[ɡ](r)ə/ |
| English | chess, board game |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 棋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9946 |
| Phonetic component |
其 |
| Rime group |
之 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
其 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɡɯ/ |
| Notes | 木根，又棊注通作棋 |
Definitions
棋
- Chinese chess
- chess
- (by extension) any chess-like game or game requiring strategy
Synonyms
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
棋
- token
Readings
Korean
Hanja
棋 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)
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Vietnamese
Han character
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