其

See also 丌

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): a basket sitting on a stand.

Later borrowed for an Old Chinese pronoun. The derivative 箕 refers to the original word.

Han character

其 (radical 12 八+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿一一金 (TMMC), four-corner 4480₁)

1. his, her, its, their
2. that

Derived characters

• 期 棋 欺 基 碁 旗

See also

• 甚

References

• KangXi: page 127, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1472
• Dae Jaweon: page 286, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 245, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5176

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Cantonese

Hanzi

其 (Yale kei4)

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Japanese

Kanji

其 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: き (ki), ぎ (gi), ご (go)
• Kun: その (其の, sono), それ (其れ, sore), し (shi)

Compounds

• 其れ (それ, sore)
• 其の (その, sono)
• 其処 (そこ, soko)
• 其方 (そちら, sochira)
• 其れ共 (それとも, soretomo)

Pronoun

其 (hiragana し, romaji shi)

1. (archaic) that
2. you
3. oneself

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Korean

Hanja

其 (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

其 (pinyin qí (qi2), Wade-Giles ch'i²)

Compounds

• 其他
• 其中
• 其實

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Vietnamese

Han character

其 (khởi, kì, kỳ, cà)