绮
綺qǐ
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beautiful, open-work silk
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
绮 joins 纟 silk with 奇 qí, whose tone differs. Its first meaning was cloth with sewn-in patterns. That became patterned silk, and then the sense of something beautiful or elegant.
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