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Mythic Mandarin

奇 (qí): meaning and stroke order

奇 (qí) means strange, odd, weird, wonderful, surprisingly, unusually, odd (number).

奇

Simplified
奇
Traditional
奇 (same form)
Pinyin
qí · jī

Stroke order of 奇

奇

  • jī odd (number)
  • qí strange; odd
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 奇

  1. qí
    • strange
    • odd
    • weird
    • wonderful
    • surprisingly
    • unusually
  2. jī
    • odd (number)

Radical and structure

奇
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 8 strokes · 大 on top, 可 below

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 奇

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).