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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
qī | qi1
English translation
perch, roost, to stay

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Number of strokes

12

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

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tree

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

木妻

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

Explanation

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

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
to perch
栖息 qī xī dwelling棲息
栖身 qī shēn to stay at棲身
两栖 liǎng qī amphibious兩棲
栖息地 qī xī dì habitat棲息地
栖霞 Xī xiá Xixia county level city in Yantai 煙台|烟台 Yān tái , Shandong棲霞
两栖动物 liǎng qī dòng wù amphibian兩棲動物
栖霞区 Qī xiá qū Qixia District of Nanjing City 南京市 Nán jīng shì in Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏 Jiāng sū 棲霞區
两栖类 liǎng qī lèi class Amphibia兩棲類
栖霞市 Xī xiá shì Xixia county level city in Yantai 煙台|烟台 Yān tái , Shandong棲霞市
陆栖 lù qī terrestrial陸棲
共栖 gòng qī symbiosis共棲
双栖双宿 shuāng qī shuāng sū to be inseparable雙棲雙宿

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