adjective #25,921

Meanings

  1. 1 lopsided
  2. 2 unbalanced
  3. 3 abnormal
  4. 4 irregular
  5. 5 odd (fractional remainder)

Examples

HSK 3
Zhè kuài dì xíngzhuàng jī, hěn nán jiànshè.
This piece of land is oddly shaped and difficult to build on.
HSK 6
Shèhuì fāzhǎn jīxíng huì dǎozhì hěnduō wèntí.
Lopsided social development leads to many problems.

Tips

usage
often appears in compound words: 畸形 (abnormal/deformed), 畸变 (distortion), 畸重畸轻 (unbalanced). Alone it is rarely used in modern speech.

Components

radical
tián
field
Field radical on the left - divided plot of farmland, grid of paths between paddies. Carries the original meaning of : an irregular, oddly-shaped scrap of land that wouldn't fit the regular -grid of state-allotted fields. From that odd leftover plot came the modern senses of lopsided, abnormal, freakish. Family: , , .
phonetic
strange; odd
Right side supplies the sound - qí shifting to jī, a q/j palatal alternation. also reinforces meaning: it already means strange, odd, unusual on its own, so it does double duty as both phonetic and semantic anchor for the irregular, abnormal sense of . One of the cases where the phonetic accidentally lands exactly on the meaning.

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