(qí) - his, her, its, their, that in Mandarin
qíTraditional: 其
Translation
his, her, its, their, that
Word origin
Originally a pictograph of a winnowing basket (the ancestor of 箕), later borrowed for the grammatical sense of his, its or that.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- a winnowing basket, later borrowed as a possessive pronoun
Stroke order
其
Examples
。
One of them is mine.
。
This book has its own special meaning.
。
We should do everything in our power.
优。
Each has its own merits.
。
Everyone else has left.
其 (qí) means his, her, its, their, that. It is a literary pronoun common in fixed expressions and written Mandarin.
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Appears in 6 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 其.
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