期

See also 朞

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 其 + semantic 月 (“moon”) – changing moon marks the passage of time, hence a period of time.

Han character

期 (radical 74 月+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿金月 (TCB), four-corner 4782₀)

1. period of time
2. date
3. time limit

References

• KangXi: page 506, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14378
• Dae Jaweon: page 887, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2083, character 7
• Unihan data for U+671F

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Cantonese

Hanzi

期 (Yale kei4)

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Japanese

Kanji

期 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: き (ki), ご (go)
• Kun: ちぎる (chigiru)

Compounds

• 期間 (きかん, kikan)
• 期待 (きたい, kitai)

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Korean

Hanja

期 (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

期 (pinyin jī (ji1), qī (qi1), qí (qi2), Wade-Giles chi¹, ch'i¹, ch'i²)

Compounds

• 星期 xīngqī - days of the week
• 星期一 xīngqīyī - Monday
• 星期二 xīngqīèr - Tuesday
• 星期三 xīngqīsān - Wednesday
• 星期四 xīngqīsì - Thursday
• 星期五 xīngqīwǔ - Friday
• 星期六 xīngqīliù - Saturday
• 星期日 xīngqīrì - Sunday
• 星期天 xīngqītiān - Sunday

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Vietnamese

Han character

期 (kỳ, kì, kề)