type of jade

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
王 meaning component

  Meaning component

wángwàng

  

king

其 sound component

  Sound component

  

its, his, (3p possessive)

Evolution

琪 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

type of jade; fine jade

Most common words with 琪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

fine jade

安琪儿

angel (loanword)

杜琪峰

Johnnie To (1955-), Hong Kong film director

范玮琪

Christine Fan (1976-), American-born Taiwanese singer and actress

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.9222% of movies

2171st most common character in movies

3138th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+742A


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