杞 (gei2 | qi3) : a species of willow

Remove Adverts and gain lots of extra features
What is this page showing me?

杞

gei2

qi3

[1] a species of willow
[2] Qi, name of a state during the Zhou dynasty (1100-256 BC)

Stroke count: 7

Level: 4

Radical: 木 (#75)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

杞

This word has been viewed 2762 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 27th Jun 2010 03:41

Output this character as a high resolution image

枸杞 gau2 gei2 gou3 qi3 = Chinese wolfberry; goji berry

杞子 gei2 zi2 = wolfberry fruit; goji berry ; red meddar berry

枸杞子 gau2 gei2 zi2 gou3 qi3 zi5 = Chinese wolfberry fruit; goji berry

杞人憂天 gei2 jan4 jau1 tin1 qi3 ren2 you1 tian1 = entertain imaginary or groundless fears

杞縣 gei2 jyun6 qi3 xian4 = Qi county (county in Henan)

Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/2230/]杞[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/2230/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">杞</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 杞
Unicode code for this character: U+675e (off-site link)

Search CantoDict (safe search is on)

Please note, CantoDict currently supports searching for Simplified Chinese, but results will be returned in Traditional Chinese.

Hide Written and Spoken Hide Written 國 Hide Spoken粵

This page shows, from top to bottom:

a large version of the character in a traditional script font which you may need to install

: the Cantonese Jyutping romanisation (pronunciation) Also, CantoDict uses a unique "asterisk (*)" convention, to show readings such as jyu^4*2. For more information please see CantoDict Tone Conventions.

: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin.
a detailed description of all the meanings
the number of strokes needed to write the character correctly
our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
a smaller version of the character in a computerised, printed font, along with the PRC simplified version if applicable
a list of characters which look similar and are therefore possible sources of confusion (where relevant)
a list of compound words that use this character, ordered by difficulty level.
(we would really appreciate new volunteers to add some more compound words to the database so please post to the CantoDict forum if you would like to spend an occasional 10 mins or so helping)


Characters \| Words \| Sentences \| Chinese Translation \| Chinese Tests \| Forums \| Search Customise CantoDict \| My Vocab Lists \| Useful Reports and Stats \| CantoDict Forum