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騎

qí, jì

ride horseback

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

Components
馬 meaning component

馬  Meaning component

mǎ

  

horse

奇 sound component

奇  Sound component

qí, jī

  

strange

Evolution

騎 Bronze script Warring States (475-221 BC)

Bronze script

Warring States (475-221 BC)
騎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

骑 (騎) 

qí

ride horseback; mount; cavalry; to sit astride; to ride (a horse, bike etc); classifier for saddle horses

骑 (騎) 

jì

(Tw) saddle horse; mounted soldier

Most common words with 騎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

骑

to sit astride

骑士

horseman

骑兵

cavalry

骑马

to ride a horse

骑车

to cycle

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.g(r)aj (~ *[Cə.g](r)aj)

gje

qí

straddle; ride

*[g](r)aj-s

gjeH

qí

rider


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.2696% of movies

1188th most common character in movies

1398th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

骑

Unicode

U+9A0E

Shuowen

“騎，跨馬也。从馬，奇聲。”


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