kuí

stride of man

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
大 meaning component

  Meaning component

dài

  

big

圭 sound component

  Sound component

guī

  

jade pointed at top

Evolution

奎 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
奎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
奎 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

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

crotch

杰奎琳

Jacqueline (name)

奎宁

quinine (loanword)

奎屯

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[Yī​lí​Hā​sà​kè​zì​zhì​zhōu], Xinjiang

奎屯市

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[Yī​lí​Hā​sà​kè​zì​zhì​zhōu], Xinjiang

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

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。”


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