Chinese Character Wiki
其

qí

its, his, (3p possessive)

Original meaning: 

basket

Pictograph of a basket, now written as 箕. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Evolution

其 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
其 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
其 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
其 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

其  

qí

his, her, its, their; that; his; her; its; their; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)

Most common words with 其
Freq.
Word
Meaning

其他

other

其

his

其实

actually

其中

among

其它

other

Component uses

Sound component in 18 characters (7 verified)

斯 期 朞 基 欺 淇 箕 旗 棋 琪 祺 麒 綦 骐 萁 蜞 鯕 鲯

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

棄

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

簸

Deleted component in 1 character (1 verified)

弃

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*gə

gi

qí

modal particle

*gə

gi

qí

(3p possessive)


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 95.8353% of movies

226th most common character in movies

85th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5176

Shuowen

“箕，簸也。从竹；，象形；下其丌也。，古文箕省。，亦古文箕。，亦古文箕。廿从一八，籀文箕。，籀文箕。”


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