期

See also: 朞

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 其 + semantic 月 – 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 (Jyutping kei4, Yale kei4)

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Japanese

Kanji

期

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. period
2. time
3. date
4. term

Readings

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

期 (Pinyin standard: qī (qi1), nonstandard: jī (ji1), 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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Middle Chinese

Han character

期 (*khje, gje, gjo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

期 (kỳ, kì, kề)

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