noun #42,368

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 winnowing basket; dustpan
  2. 2 a loop-pattern fingerprint
  3. 3 Ji, a constellation in traditional Chinese astronomy

Examples

Yéye yòng bòji bǎ gǔzi hé kāng fēnkāi.
Grandpa is using a winnowing basket to separate the grain from the chaff.
箕踞毫无礼貌
Tā jījù ér zuò, háowú lǐmào.
He sat with his legs sprawled out, completely without manners.

Tips

culture
Children's fingerprints are folk-classified as (a 'basket,' an open loop) or (a 'dipper,' a closed whorl). The rhyme 'one bucket poor, two buckets rich' is a popular fortune-telling game.

Components

radical
zhú
bamboo (top radical)
Bamboo cap on top, the head-form of . It marks objects woven from bamboo strips — a winnowing basket was traditionally plaited bamboo. Same family as basket, hamper, chopsticks.
phonetic
(grammatical particle); its
Bottom is actually the original drawing of a winnowing basket; when it was borrowed away to be a pronoun, the bamboo cap was added on top to keep the basket meaning. It now also lends a near-rhyme sound (qí → jī).

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