kuí
stride of man
Phonosemantic compound. 大 represents the meaning and 圭 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
kuí
stride of man; one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions; crotch; 15th of the 28th constellations of Chinese astronomy
Most common words with 奎
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
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crotch | ||
Jacqueline (name) | ||
quinine (loanword) | ||
Kuitun city or Küytun shehiri in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[YīlíHāsàkèzìzhìzhōu], Xinjiang | ||
Kuitun city or Küytun shehiri in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[YīlíHāsàkèzìzhìzhōu], Xinjiang |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.7711% of movies
2161st most common character in movies
2608th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+594E |
Shuowen | “奎,兩髀之閒。从大,圭聲。” |
Sources
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