栖 · qī
perch; roost; stay
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
perch; roost; stay
- Mandarin
- qī
- Cantonese
- cai1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 栖 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 서
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
Go deeperHán Việt (Thi Viện) ↗Wiktionary ↗
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+6816
- Radical
- 木 · 75
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
10 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 栖
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 西 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 西聲
Line 8594 · ⿰木西 · 西聲
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
棲
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- sej · 先稽 反切 · #308
- Middle Chinese
- sejH · 蘇計 反切 · #2367
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 2924 · sej = 蟹開四平齊心 · sejH = 蟹開四去齊心
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- qī
- kCantonese
- cai1
- kDefinition
- perch; roost; stay
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 75.6
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+6816 U+68F2
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+6816
- kTGH
- 2013:1837
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- qī 0894.030 · xī 1228.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- qī 290.050
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 先稽 蘇計
- Kangxi positions
- 0522.030
- Guangyun positions
- 090.16 372.28
- GSR references
- 0594f
- Cangjie
- DMCW
- Four-corner
- 4196.0