gem

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
王 meaning component

  Meaning component

wángwàng

  

king

奇 sound component

  Sound component

  

strange

Evolution

琦 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
琦 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
琦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

gem, precious stone, jade; curio; valuable stone

Most common words with 琦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

curio

崔琦

Daniel C. Tsui (1939-), Chinese-born American physicist, winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.4325% of movies

3328th most common character in movies

3288th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7426


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