(qī) - period, term in Mandarin
qīTraditional: 期
Translation
period, term
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the moon radical 月 marks a span of time, and 其 (qí) supplies the sound, giving a period or appointed time.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 月 (moon radical) + 其 (qí, phonetic)
Stroke order
期
Examples
。
I am very busy this week.
。
The term is almost over.
？
Are you free next week?
。
The term starts next week.
。
I buy every issue of this magazine.
期 (qī) means a period or term. In 星期 (xīng qī) it gives us the everyday word for week.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 期.
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Grammar articles
(6)Mandarin Advanced Grammar (C1-C2 / HSK 6+): Chengyu, Classical Remnants, and Register
Mandarin Classifiers (Measure Words): 个, 本, 张, 只, 条, and the Rule That Every Counted Noun Needs One
The Mandarin Copula 是 (shì): To Be, and When to Leave It Out
Duration Complements in Mandarin (时量补语): How to Say How Long an Action Lasts
Mandarin Numbers, Time, Dates, and Currency: From 1 to 1,000,000, the 二/两 Split, and Time-Before-Verb
Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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