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颀

qí

Character Traditional 頎

What 颀 means

1. tall

Characters built on 页

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

• 题títopic; problem for discussion; exam question
• 颐yí(literary) chin; jaw; (literary) to foster; to nurture; to protect

Sounds the same

Read qí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 其his; her; its
• 奇strange; odd; weird
• 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