淇
qí

name of a river

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 其 represents the sound.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

其
其 Sound component
qí its, his, (3p possessive)

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡɯ

說文解字

《說文》：“淇，水。出河內共北山，東入河；或曰出隆慮西山。从水，其聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)