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紀

jì, jǐ

record

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 己 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

己 sound component

己  Sound component

jǐ

  

self

Evolution

紀 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

纪 (紀) 

jì

record, annal, historical account; order; discipline; age; era; period; to chronicle

纪 (紀) 

Jǐ

surname Ji; also pr. [Jì]

Most common words with 紀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

世纪

century

年纪

age

纪念

to commemorate

纪录

to record

经纪人

broker

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k(r)əʔ

kiX

jǐ

leading thread


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 49.0149% of movies

833rd most common character in movies

584th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Simplified

纪

Unicode

U+7D00

Shuowen

“紀，絲別也。从糸，己聲。”


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