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綮

qǐ

Character

What 綮 means

1. embroidered banner

Characters built on 户

These share the phonetic component 户 (hù), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 启qǐto open; to start; to initiate
• 戾lìto bend; to violate; to go against
• 扆yǐscreen

Sounds the same

Read qǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 起to rise; to raise; to get up
• 企(bound form) to stand on tiptoe and look; to anticipate; to look forward to…
• 启to open; to start; to initiate
• 乞to beg
• 岂how? (emphatic question)
• 绮beautiful; open-work silk
• 杞Chinese wolfberry shrub (Lycium chinense); willow
• 稽to bow to the ground
• 呇star
• 芑Panicum miliaceum
• 屺(literary) a barren hill
• 棨tally for going through a pass