季刊

jìkān

noun #30,420

Measure Word

一本季刊 běn

Meanings

1 quarterly publication
2 quarterly journal / magazine

Characters

season; quarter

publication; periodical

Examples

这是一本学术季刊。

Zhè shì yī běn xuéshù jìkān.

This is an academic quarterly.

季刊每三个月出版一次。

Jìkān měi sān ge yuè chūbǎn yī cì.

A quarterly is published once every three months.

Tips

memory

Publication frequency follows a clean pattern: 日刊 (daily), 周刊 (weekly), 月刊 (monthly), 季刊 (quarterly), 年刊 (yearly). 季 here means 'season', and there are 4 seasons in a year.

Stroke Order

季 jì

刊 kān