基 — Chinese character
基
jī
foundation, base
- Pinyin
- jī
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 其 土
- Formation
- pictophonetic — earth; meaning component 土; sound component 其
- Japanese
- 基 as a kanji
Common words with 基
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 基础 (基礎) | jī chǔ | base; foundation; basis; basic; fundamental |
| 基本 | jī běn | basic; fundamental |
| 基地 | jī dì | base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc) |
| 基金 | jī jīn | fund |
| 基于 (基於) | jī yú | because of; on the basis of |
| 基层 (基層) | jī céng | basic level; grassroots unit |
| 基本上 | jī běn shang | basically; on the whole |
| 基因 | jī yīn | gene (loanword) |
| 基金会 (基金會) | jī jīn huì | foundation (institution supported by an endowment) |
| 维基 (維基) | wéi jī | wiki (Internet) |
| 基础设施 (基礎設施) | jī chǔ shè shī | infrastructure |
| 基本法 | jī běn fǎ | basic law (constitutional document) |
English words written with 基
基 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.