七

See also: 柒

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

The character 七 was originally a picture of a vertical line and a horizontal line bisecting each other, meaning something like, "cut and throw away the remainder." "Seven" is a borrowed meaning.

The top-most horizontal stroke is done from left to right. The vertical line and bottom-most horizontal line are done as one stroke, from top-left to bottom-right.

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

七 (radical 1 一+1, 2 strokes, cangjie input 十山 (JU), four-corner 4071₀, composition ⿻乚丿)

Descendants

• ㄘ

References

• KangXi: page 75, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 3, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4E03

See also

• (Chinese written numbers): 零 or 〇， 一， 二， 三， 四， 五， 六， 七， 八， 九， 十， 百， 千， 萬／万， 億／亿
• (Chinese financial form): 柒
• 㐂

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		七

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni-s (“seven”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qī (qi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cat¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chhit
• Min Nan (POJ): chhit
• Wu (WT Romanisation): tshiq (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qī
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cat¹
    • Yale: chāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsat⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐt̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhit
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡ɕʰit̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhit
    • Tâi-lô: tshit
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰit̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰit̚³²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: tshiq (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰi̯ɪʔ⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (七, reconstructed)
Character (七), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 清 (14) Final: 質 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 親吉切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡sʰiɪt̚/	/t͡sʰi̯ĕt̚/	/t͡sʰiĕt̚/	/t͡sʰit̚/	/t͡sʰit̚/	/t͡sʰĭĕt̚/	/t͡sʰjet̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (七, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
七								qī								‹ tshit ›								/*[tsʰ]i[t]/								seven
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
七					9910					七					質					1					七					/*sn̥ʰid/

Numeral

七

1. seven

See also

• (Chinese written numbers): 零 or 〇， 一， 二， 三， 四， 五， 六， 七， 八， 九， 十， 百， 千， 萬／万， 億／亿

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Japanese

Kanji

七

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: しち (shichi)
• Kan’on: しつ (shitsu)
• Kun: なな (nana), ななつ (七つ, nanatsu), なの (nano)
• Nanori: し (shi), しっ (shi~), な (na), ひち (hichi)

Compounds

• 七々日, 七七日 (shichishichinichi,nanananoka,nanananuka):
• 七回忌 (shichikaiki):
• 七角形 (shichikakkei): heptagon
• 七月 (shichigatsu): July
• 七賢 (shichiken):
• 七絃琴 (shichigenkin):
• 七言絶句 (shichigonzekku):
• 七言律詩 (shichigonrisshi):
• 七五三 (しちごさん, shichi-go-san)
• 七五調 (shichigochou):
• 七光 (nanahikari):
• 七三 (shichisan):
• 七重 (nanae):
• 七色 (nanairo): the seven prismatic colors
• 七星 (shichisei): Ursa Major
• 七生 (shichishou):
• 七草 (nanakusa):

• 七堂伽藍 (shichidougaran):
• 七道 (shichidou):
• 七難 (shichinan):
• 七不思議 (nanafushigi):
• 七福神 (shichifukujin):
• 七宝 (shippou): the "seven treasures;" (Buddhism)
• 七味 (shichimi):
• 七面体 (shichimentai):
• 七面鳥 (shichimenchou): turkey
• 七夜 (nanayo):
• 七夕 (tanabata, shichiseki):
• 七曜 (shichiyou):
• 七厘, 七輪 (shichirin):
• 七竈 (nanakamado):
• 七頭 (chitau):
• 七碌 (chitluk):
• 七咕碌 (chitkooluk):
• 七つ子 (しちつし, shichi tsushi): septuplets

Pronunciation 1

• Kun'yomi
• Standard Accent: な​な (Atamadaka)

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

七 (hiragana なな, romaji nana)

1. seven
2. a gambler

Related terms

• See below (related terms for pronunciation 2)

Pronunciation 2

• On'yomi
• Standard Accent: しち​ (Odaka)

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

七 (hiragana しち, romaji shichi)

1. seven

Related terms

• 七つ
• 七曲がり
• 七週の祭
• 七珍万宝
• 七顛八起, 七転八起
• 七転八倒, 七顛八倒
• 七並べ

Number

Japanese cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : 七

七 (しち, shichi) or 七 (なな, nana)

1. seven; 7

   なな (nana) is used instead of しち (shichi) in conversation because しち (shichi) is considered unlucky.

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Hanja

七 (chil)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 칠 (revised: chil, McCune-Reischauer: ch'il, Yale: chil)

• Name (hangeul): 일곱 (revised: ilgop, McCune-Reischauer: ilgop, Yale: ilkop)

1. seven

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Vietnamese

Han character

七 (thất)

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