Kilo Lingo

其

qí

Traditional: 其

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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

Stroke order for 其

其

Examples

。

One of them is mine.

。

This book has its own special meaning.

。

We should do everything in our power.

优yōu。

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.

Appears in 6 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 其.

其他qí tāother, the rest, else其实qí shíactually, in fact, as a matter of fact其中qí zhōngamong them, in it, of which其他人qí tā rénother people, the others其它qí tāother, the rest (of things)尤其yóu qíespecially, particularly, above all

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This word is part of lesson 21.