荠

薺

jì

#5,613 most

frequent character

see 薺菜|荠菜[ji4 cai4]

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

荠 combines 艹 plants with 齐 qí, which supplies the sound. It first named a thorny plant, Tribulus terrestris. The reading qí came to mean water chestnut.

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Same Characters, Different Readings

used in 荸薺|荸荠[bi2qi2]

Homophones

to live (in a house), to lodge

already, since, as

. count, . to count

to offer a sacrifice to

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