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埼

qí
noun #47,346

Meanings

  1. 1 a curved headland; a winding shoreline

Examples

船绕过一道埼，海湾豁然开阔。
Chuán ràoguò yí dào qí, hǎiwān huòrán kāikuò.
The boat rounded a curved headland and the bay opened up.
埼玉县就在东京北面。
Qíyù Xiàn jiù zài Dōngjīng běimiàn.
Saitama Prefecture lies just north of Tokyo.

Tips

usage
Rare and literary in Chinese, meaning a curved promontory. Most learners meet it in the Japanese place name 埼玉 (Saitama Prefecture).

Components

radical
土 tǔ
earth; land
Left side is the earth radical 土, since a headland is a tongue of land jutting into water.
phonetic
奇 qí
strange; odd; sound element
Right side 奇 supplies the reading qí exactly; the same phonetic builds 崎 ('rugged') and 骑.

In Pop Culture

埼玉 Qíyù
Saitama
A Japanese prefecture bordering Tokyo, written 埼玉. The character 埼 is far more common in Japanese place names than in modern Chinese.

Stroke Order

埼 qí