👥 🎓 📚 📦

騏

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

骐

🇨🇳

excellent

HSK 10

Nature →Animals →Mammals

qí

キ

기

Components

Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

騏

Regular

Modern

Chinese

骐 / 騏 [qí]

piebald horse; used for 麒[qí], mythical unicorn

Example Sentences

CHINESE WORDS (1)

骐麟 [qílín]

variant of 麒麟[qílín]

JAPANESE WORDS (3)

⭐ 麒麟 [きりん] #38,740

giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)

軽竜騏兵 [けいりゅうきへい]

(Royal) light cavalry

麒麟も老いぬれば駑馬に劣る [きりんもおいぬればどばにおとる]

even an outstanding person becomes inferior when getting old