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骐

騏
qí
noun #40,549

Meanings

  1. 1 a fine horse; piebald horse with dark markings

Examples

骐骥一跃，不能十步。
Qí jì yí yuè, bùnéng shí bù.
"A fine steed cannot cross ten paces in one leap" - even talent needs persistence.
骐字如今多用于人名。
Qí zì rújīn duō yòngyú rénmíng.
This character is mostly used in given names today.

Tips

history
骐 is a fine horse, usually paired as 骐骥 ("a thoroughbred"). Xunzi's line that even a 骐骥 cannot leap far in one bound is a classic lesson on steady effort.

Components

radical
马 mǎ
horse
马 is the horse radical, marking 骐 as a kind of horse.
phonetic
其 qí
his; its; that
其 gives the exact sound qí and carries no meaning in 骐. The same phonetic appears in 棋, 期, and 旗.

Stroke Order

骐 qí