七

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

seven

HSK 1 N4

qī

シチ

なな、なな.つ、なの

칠

Depicts two lines crossing. Based on the original meaning "cut", now written as 切. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

七

Regular

Modern

Chinese

七 [qī]

seven; 7

Japanese

七、７、漆 (rare) しち、なな同音

numeric seven (漆 is used in legal documents)

七チー同音

numeric seven

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

私は今朝7時に起きた。

I got up at seven this morning.

Japanese Names

七さとる

Satoru surname

七な

Na unclassified name

七なな

Nana surname

七なの

Nano female given name

CHINESE WORDS (165)

七月 [Qīyuè] #13,748

July

乱七八糟 [luànqībāzāo] #4,928

everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess

乱七八糟 [luànqībāzāo] #4,928

everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess

七星 [Qīxīng] #16,412

Qixing district of Guilin city 桂林市[Guìlínshì], Guangxi

七夕 [Qīxī] #21,246

double seven festival, evening of seventh of lunar seventh month

七月份 [qīyuèfèn] #43,876

July

十七 [shíqī] #10,125

seventeen

七嘴八舌 [qīzuǐbāshé] #46,969

lively discussion with everybody talking at once

横七竖八 [héngqīshùbā] #34,691

in disorder

横七竖八 [héngqīshùbā] #34,691

in disorder

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JAPANESE WORDS (197)

seven colours (of the rainbow)

７００ [ななひゃく] #21,513

700

七不思議 [ななふしぎ] #26,180

seven wonders (of a particular area)

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KOREAN WORDS (5)

Big Dipper; Great Bear