pray

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
礻 meaning component

  Meaning component

shì

  

show

is a component form of .

阝 sound component

  Sound component

  

hill, place

is a component form of .

Evolution

祁 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
祁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
祁 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
祁 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

pray; numerous, ample, abundant; large; vast

 

surname Qi

Most common words with 祁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

large

祁连山

Mt Qilian in Qinhai

祁连

Qilian county in Haibei Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海北藏族自治州[Hǎi​běi​Zàng​zú​zì​zhì​zhōu], Qinghai

祁县

Qixian county in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中[Jìn​zhōng], Shanxi

祁门

Qimen county in Huangshan 黃山|黄山[Huáng​shān], Anhui

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]rij

gij

(place name)

*[g]rə[j]

gij

great, numerous


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3477th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+7941

Shuowen

“祁,太原縣。从邑,示聲。”


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