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

• 倛 掑 唭 帺 猉 淇 娸 騏 (骐) 琪 棋 祺 稘 褀 蜞 粸 綨 踑 諆 錤 (𫓹) 鯕 (鲯) 鶀 麒 剘 斯 期 欺 𤿺 萁 箕 基 棊 朞 惎 碁 蜝 綦 諅 魌 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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		其

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qí (qi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei¹, kei⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): khî, kia
• Min Nan (POJ): kî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qí
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gei¹, kei⁴
    • Yale: gēi, kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei¹, kei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /kei̯⁵⁵/, /kʰei̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khî, kia
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ki2, gia1
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
    • Tâi-lô: kî
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (其, reconstructed)
Character (其), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 群 (30) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 渠之切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɡɨ/	/gi/	/ɡiə/	/ɡɨ/	/gɨ/	/ɡĭə/	/ɡie/
Character (其), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 居之切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɨ/	/ki/	/kiə/	/kɨ/	/kɨ/	/kĭə/	/kie/

Old Chinese pronunciation (其, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
其								qí								‹ gi ›								/*ɡə/								modal particle
其								qí								‹ gi ›								/*ɡə/								(3p possessive)
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
其					9937					其					之					0					姬					/*kɯ/
其					9947					其					之					0					其					/*ɡɯ/

Definitions

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Compounds

• 其他
• 其中
• 其實

References

• (Hakka) Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

其

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Goon: ぎ (gi), ご (go)
• Kan’on: き (ki)
• 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 (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

其 (khởi, kì, kỳ, cà)

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