記
简 记 · 繁 記Meanings · gei3
- address after one's name who is very close
- a commonly used last character of a shop name
Meanings · gei3
- to record
- to note
- to remember
- mark
- sign
- classifier for blows, kicks, shots
- written accounts
- records
- a seal
- to keep in mind
- a book recording notes
- information
- people
- usually used in abbreviating the name or brandname of a shop
- business
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 記 jì CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto record; to note; to memorize; to remember; mark; sign; classifier for blows, kicks, shots
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: ji4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 12 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
gei3
Cantonese word readings for 記. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- to record; to mark; to note
- to keep in mind; remember
- record; chronicle
- notation; mark; note; seal; sign; ideogram
- birthmark (a mark on the skin formed before birth) (Classifier: 塊／块 m)
- (Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore) Suffix for local restaurants, stores, etc. , Kei (Macau), Kee (Hong Kong), Ji (Mandarin)
- (Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore) Suffix for local restaurants, stores, etc. , Kei (Macau), Kee (Hong Kong), Ji (Mandarin) — (figuratively, slang) Suffix for any type of institutions
- (Cantonese) Suffix to show affection.
- (Cantonese) Suffix forming colloquial clippings (often functioning as familiarizers), similar to -ie.
- (Guangzhou Cantonese) Suffix on verbs.
- Classifier for blows. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
- a surname, Ji
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