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奇

qí

HSK 3 Character

What 奇 means

1. strange
2. odd
3. weird
4. wonderful
5. surprisingly
6. unusually

Other readings

奇 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• jīodd (number)

Example sentences

• 奇怪。
  That's strange.
• 真奇怪。
  How odd!
• 真奇怪！
  How curious!
• 太神奇了。
  Tài shénqí le.
  It's amazing.
• 我很好奇。
  I am curious.
• 有点奇怪。
  It's sort of strange.

Words starting with 奇

• 奇怪qí guàistrange; odd; to marvel
• 奇迹qí jìmiracle; wonder; marvel
• 奇妙qí miàowonderful; marvelous; intriguing; mysterious; strange
• 奇特qí tèpeculiar; unusual; queer
• 奇异qí yìfantastic; bizarre; odd
• 奇观qí guānspectacle; impressive sight
• 奇遇qí yùhappy encounter; fortuitous meeting; adventure
• 奇幻qí huànfantasy (fiction)
• 奇效qí xiàowondrous effect; marvelous efficacy
• 奇才qí cáigenius
• 奇闻qí wénbizarre anecdote; extraordinary piece of news
• 奇形怪状qí xíng guài zhuàngfantastic oddities of every description (idiom); grotesquely shaped
• 奇人qí rénan eccentric; odd person; person of extraordinary talent
• 奇兵qí bīngtroops appearing suddenly (in a raid or ambush)
• 奇景qí jǐngwonderful scenery; amazing sight; (fig.) marvel
• 奇事qí shìmarvel
• 奇葩qí pāexotic flower; (fig.) marvel; prodigy
• 奇缺qí quēvery short of (food, clean water etc); extreme shortage; deficit
• 奇袭qí xísurprise attack; raid
• 奇装异服qí zhuāng yì fúbizarre dress
• 奇士qí shìodd person; an eccentric
• 奇差qí chà(colloquial) extremely poor (in quality); shockingly bad
• 奇技qí jìspecial skill; remarkable feat
• 奇数jī shùodd number

Words containing 奇

• 好奇hào qíinquisitive; curious; inquisitiveness
• 神奇shén qímagical; mystical; miraculous
• 惊奇jīng qíto be amazed; to be surprised; to wonder
• 传奇chuán qílegendary; fantasy saga; romance
• 好奇心hào qí xīninterest in sth; curiosity; inquisitive
• 出奇chū qíextraordinary; exceptional; unusual
• 新奇xīn qínovel; new; exotic
• 刘少奇Liú Shào qíLiu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution
• 离奇lí qíodd; bizarre
• 稀奇xī qírare; strange
• 米奇Mǐ qíMickey or Mitch (name)
• 稀奇古怪xī qí gǔ guài(idiom) crazy; bizarre; weird; fantastic; strange
• 不足为奇bù zú wéi qínot at all surprising (idiom)
• 突发奇想tū fā qí xiǎngsuddenly have a thought (idiom); suddenly be inspired to do something
• 千奇百怪qiān qí bǎi guàifantastic oddities of every description (idiom)
• 猎奇liè qíto hunt for novelty; to seek novelty
• 平淡无奇píng dàn wú qíordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about
• 蒙太奇méng tài qí(loanword) (film) montage
• 无奇不有wú qí bù yǒunothing is too bizarre; full of extraordinary things
• 古奇Gǔ qíGucci (brand)
• 居奇jū qíto hoard; to speculate; profiteering
• 维奇Wéi qíPope Vigilius (in office 537-555); phonetic -vich or -wich in Russian names
• 西奇xī qísygyt (overtone singing)
• 道奇Dào qíDodge, US automobile brand, division of Chrysler LLC

Characters that look like 奇

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 希xīto hope; to admire; variant of 稀
• 帝dì(bound form) emperor; sovereign; supreme deity
• 青qīnggreen; blue; black
• 辛xīn(of taste) hot or pungent; hard; laborious
• 寿shòulong life; old age; age
• 帚zhǒubroom

Sounds the same

Read qí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 其his; her; its
• 骑to sit astride; to ride (a horse, bike etc); classifier for saddle horses
• 齐neat; even; level with
• 棋chess; chess-like game; a game of chess
• 歧divergent; side road
• 旗flag; variant of 旗
• 琪(literary) fine jade
• 祺(literary) good luck; good fortune…
• 祈to implore; to pray; to request
• 崎mountainous
• 琦(literary) fine jade
• 淇name of a river