俟 — Chinese character
俟
qí
wait for, wait until, as soon as
- Pinyin
- qí
- Radical
- 9 ⼈ (Man)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 亻 矣
- Formation
- ideographic — A person 亻 waiting for something to finish 矣; 矣 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 俟 as a kanji
Common words with 俟
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 俟候 | sì hòu | to wait (literary) |
| 俟机 (俟機) | sì jī | variant of 伺机 (sì jī) |
俟 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 3 · Mencius 4 · Doctrine of the Mean 3
- Analects 10.13
- Analects 11.25
- Analects 14.46
- Mencius 2B.2
- Mencius 5B.7
- Mencius 7A.1
- Mencius 7B.33
- The Doctrine of the Mean Passage 14
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.