jǐ, jī
how much
Original meaning:
danger
Depicts a weapon (戈) cutting ropes (𢆶) tied around a person (人). Based on the original meaning "danger". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kəj | kj+j | jī | small; almost |
*kəjʔ | kj+jX | jǐ | few; how many |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 93.7049% of movies
269th most common character in movies
211th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5E7E |
Shuowen | “幾，微也，殆也。从，从戍。戍，兵守也。而兵守者危也。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.318-319
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