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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
jì | ji4
English translation
(Taiwan) saddle horse
mounted soldier
Pīnyīn Pronunciation
qí | qi2
English translation
to ride (an animal or bike)
to sit astride
classifier for saddle-horses
to ride, to mount; cavalry

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Number of strokes

11

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

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horse

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

马奇

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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我们 wǒmen shì rào zhāo 公园 gōngyuán páo ,还是 háishi 骑车 qí chē 兜兜 dōu dou fēng ?

Shall we run around the park or a bike ride?

shuí shuì 可以 kěyǐ 自行车 zìxíngchē 穿 chuān Guò de 园子 de ?

Who said you could ride your bicycle over my garden?

骑车 qí chē tài kuài shí ,自行车 zìxíngchē de líng lǎo ài diào 下来 xià lai .

My bicycle bell is apt to fall off when I ride too fast.

qǐng Jiào 怎样 zěn yàng 自行车 zìxíngchē .

Teach me how to ride a bicycle.

le hěn jiǔ 之后 zhī hòu 回到 huí dào le jiā .

He fetched home after his long ride.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
to sit astride
骑士 qí shì horseman騎士
骑兵 qí bīng cavalry騎兵
骑马 qí mǎ to ride a horse騎馬
骑车 qí chē to cycle騎車
骑警 qí jǐng mounted police (on horse or motorbike)騎警
坐骑 zuò qí mount坐騎
铁骑 tiě qí armored horses鐵騎
轻骑 qīng qí light cavalry輕騎
骑术 qí shù equestrianism騎術
骑虎难下 qí hǔ nán xià if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway騎虎難下
骑射 qí shè equestrian archery騎射
骑楼 qí lóu arcade (architecture)騎樓
骑师 qí shī jockey騎師
骑墙 qí qiáng to sit on the fence騎牆
势成骑虎 shì chéng qí hǔ if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway勢成騎虎
骑马者 qí mǎ zhě horseman騎馬者
骑田岭 Qí tián lǐng Qitian mountain range between south Hunan and Guangdong騎田嶺
骑鹤上扬州 qí hè shàng Yáng zhōu lit. to ride a crane to Yangzhou (idiom); to get an official position騎鶴上揚州
骑驴觅驴 qí lǘ mì lǘ fig. to look for what one already has騎驢覓驢

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