Read Edit View history 祇 qí the spirit of the earth Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 氏 represents the sound. Pinyin Separate values with commas qí ×chí ×zhī × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint 礻 is a component form of 示. Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 祇 Simp strokes 祇 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 祇 Simp strokes 祇 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 祇 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 255, 819 ], [ 341, 771 ], [ 370, 731 ] ], [ [ 64, 536 ], [ 111, 524 ], [ 131, 525 ], [ 275, 574 ], [ 318, 573 ], [ 304, 521 ], [ 205, 357 ], [ 121, 257 ], [ 41, 189 ] ], [ [ 252, 377 ], [ 254, 348 ], [ 264, 329 ], [ 257, 165 ], [ 248, 94 ], [ 254, 26 ] ], [ [ 333, 416 ], [ 389, 369 ], [ 398, 351 ] ], [ [ 782, 752 ], [ 715, 757 ], [ 632, 694 ], [ 514, 632 ], [ 513, 625 ] ], [ [ 426, 640 ], [ 459, 618 ], [ 474, 602 ], [ 476, 591 ], [ 486, 440 ], [ 482, 280 ], [ 475, 227 ], [ 480, 181 ], [ 499, 184 ], [ 532, 202 ], [ 616, 282 ] ], [ [ 538, 445 ], [ 612, 452 ], [ 792, 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