棋
qí HSK7

chess

棋 qí
chess noun
a board game such as chess, Go, or xiangqi, or a match of such a game

下棋是一项非常受大众欢迎的益智活动。

xià qí shì yī xiàng fēi​cháng shòu dà​zhòng huān​yíng de yì​zhì huó​dòng.

Playing chess is a very popular intellectual activity among the public.

piece noun
a playing piece or counter used in a board game

他拿起一颗棋，思考了很久才落下。

tā ná​qǐ yī kē qí, sī​kǎo le hěn jiǔ cái luò​xià.

He picked up a piece and thought for a long time before making a move.

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,089th most common 32.5 per million
Movie subtitles
2,201st most common 14.2 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.02 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
18.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+68CB

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)