# 騏

| 騏 | U+9A0F, &#39439; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9A0F |
| ← 騎 [U+9A0E] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 騐 → [U+9A10] |

## Translingual
### Han character

騏 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+8, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸火廿一金 (SFTMC), four-corner 7438$_1$, composition ⿰馬其)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1440, character 37
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44818
* Dae Jaweon: page 1965, character 1
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4559, character 10
* Unihan data for U+9A0F

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 騏 :
| Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 基 | *kɯ |
| 箕 | *kɯ |
| 朞 | *kɯ |
| 稘 | *kɯ |
| 萁 | *kɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 期 | *kɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 諅 | *kɯ, *ɡɯs |
| 其 | *kɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 錤 | *kɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 諆 | *kɯ, *kʰɯ |
| 欺 | *kʰɯ |
| 娸 | *kʰɯ |
| 魌 | *kʰɯ |
| 僛 | *kʰɯ |
| 唭 | *kʰɯs |
| 棋 | *ɡɯ |
| 旗 | *ɡɯ |
| 淇 | *ɡɯ |
| 祺 | *ɡɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 琪 | *ɡɯ |
| 騏 | *ɡɯ |
| 綦 | *ɡɯ |
| 麒 | *ɡɯ |
| 蜞 | *ɡɯ |
| 綨 | *ɡɯ |
| 蜝 | *ɡɯ |
| 棊 | *ɡɯ |
| 碁 | *ɡɯ |
| 鯕 | *ɡɯ |
| 踑 | *ɡɯ |
| 藄 | *ɡɯ |
| 櫀 | *ɡɯ |
| 璂 | *ɡɯ |
| 禥 | *ɡɯ |
| 惎 | *ɡɯs |
| 帺 | *ɡɯs |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): qí (qi$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kei$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kî
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: qí
*** Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cí
*** Wade–Giles: chʻi$^2$
*** Yale: chí
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
*** Palladius: ци (ci)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: kei$^4$
*** Yale: kèih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kei$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: kéi$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰei̯²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
*** Tâi-lô: kî
*** Phofsit Daibuun: kii
*** IPA (Xiamen): /ki²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ki²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /ki²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki²³/
* Middle Chinese: gi
Rime :
| Character | 騏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 群 (30) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 渠之切 |
| Baxter | gi |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɡɨ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɡɨ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɡie/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /gɨ/ |
| Li Rong | /ɡiə/ |
| Wang Li | /ɡĭə/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /gi/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | qí |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | kei$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ](r)ə/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡɯ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 騏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | qí |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ gi › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ɡ](r)ə/ |
| English | black-mottled grey horse |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 騏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9954 |
| Phonetic component | 其 |
| Rime group | 之 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 其 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡɯ/ |

### Definitions

騏
* (literary) dark-blue piebald horse
    From: Mozi, c. 4th century BCE
    Yòu yuē: “Wǒ mǎ wéi qí, liù pèi ruò sī, zǎi chí zǎi qū, zhōu yuán zī móu.” [Pinyin]
    Further: "My team is of dark grey horses. The six reins look like silk. They trot and gallop. The plans (of the king) are all-inclusive."
* (literary) excellent horse
    From: Zhuangzi, circa 3rd – 2nd centuries BCE
    Qíjì huáliú, yīrì ér chí qiānlǐ, bǔ shǔ bùrú lílíshēng, yán shūjì yě. [Pinyin]
    The (horses) Qi-ji and Hua-liu could in one day gallop 1000 li, but for catching rats they were not equal to a wild dog or a weasel - the gifts of creatures are different.
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 人中騏驥／人中骐骥
* 騏騮／骐骝
* 騏驎／骐𬴊 (qílín)
* 騏驥／骐骥 (qíjì)
* 騏驥一毛／骐骥一毛

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: ご (go)
* Kan-on: き (ki)
* Kun: くろみどり (kuromidori)

#### Compounds

* 騏(き)驎(りん) (kirin)

## Korean
### Hanja

騏 (eum 기 (gi))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

騏: Hán Nôm readings: kì
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#### References

* Nom Foundation