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Mythic Mandarin

己 (jǐ): meaning and stroke order

己 (jǐ) means self, oneself, sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干, sixth in order.

己

Simplified
己
Traditional
己 (same form)
Pinyin
jǐ

Stroke order of 己

己

  • jǐ self; oneself
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 己

  1. jǐ
    • self
    • oneself
    • sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]
    • sixth in order
    • letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc
    • hexa

Radical and structure

己
Radical 己 (Kangxi radical 49) · 3 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 己

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).