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

HSK 7-9
Yéye yòng bòji bǎ gǔzi hé kāng fēnkāi.
Grandpa is using a winnowing basket to separate the grain from the chaff.
HSK 7-9
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 to jī).

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