Chinese Character Wiki

綺

qǐ

fine thin silk

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

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

奇 sound component

奇  Sound component

qí, jī

  

strange

Evolution

綺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
綺 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
綺 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
綺 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
綺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

绮 (綺) 

qǐ

fine thin silk; elegant, beautiful; beautiful; open-work silk

Most common words with 綺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

绮

beautiful

绮丽

beautiful

绮罗

beautiful silk fabrics

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʰ(r)a[j]ʔ

khjeX

qǐ

patterned silk


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3565th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

绮

Unicode

U+7DBA

Shuowen

“綺，文繒也。从糸，奇聲。”


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