qí
pray
Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 斤 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 祈
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to pray | ||
to pray | ||
to pray for | ||
to pray for blessings | ||
to hope |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.[ɢ]ər | gj+j | qí | pray |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 20.0705% of movies
1422nd most common character in movies
2443rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+7948 |
Shuowen | “祈，求福也。从示，斤聲。” |
Sources
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