稽 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

jī, qǐ

examine

Components

禾 Meaning component

hé

grain stalk

grain

尤 Unknown component

yóu

especially

旨 Sound component

zhǐ

purpose

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

稽

jī

examine, investigate; delay; to inspect; to check

稽

Jī

surname Ji

稽

qǐ

to bow to the ground

Most common words with 稽

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	滑稽	comical
	稽查	inspection
	稽	to inspect
	无稽之谈	complete nonsense (idiom)
	无稽	nonsense

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*kˤij	kej	jī	accord with
*kˤij	kej	jī	cultivate (field)
*kˤij	kej	jī	calculate
*[kʰ]ˤijʔ	khejX	qǐ	bow the head to the ground

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.0959% of movies

2309th most common character in movies

2427th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	15
Unicode	U+7A3D
Shuowen	“稽，留止也。从，从尤，旨聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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