叽 · jī
sigh in disapproval; take small
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
sigh in disapproval; take small
- Mandarin
- jī
- Cantonese
- gei1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+53FD
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 5 · Unihan
- Residual
- 2
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
5 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 叽
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
嘰
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- jī
- kCantonese
- gei1
- kDefinition
- sigh in disapproval; take small
- kTotalStrokes
- 5
- kRSUnicode
- 30.2
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+5630
- kTGH
- 2013:251
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- jiào 10572.030,10572.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- jī 0523.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- jī 153.050