荠 — Chinese character
荠
jì
water chestnut; water caltrop
- Pinyin
- jì
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 艹 齐
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 齐
- Traditional
- 薺
Common words with 荠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 荸荠 (荸薺) | bí qí | Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis) |
| 荠菜 (薺菜) | jì cài | shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) |
| 荠苧 (薺薴) | jì níng | (botany) Mosla grosseserrata; (botany) Mosla chinensis |
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.