凄 — Chinese character
凄
qī
bitter cold, miserable, dreary
- Pinyin
- qī
- Radical
- 15 ⼎ (Ice)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 冫 妻
- Formation
- pictophonetic — ice; meaning component 冫; sound component 妻
- Japanese
- 凄 as a kanji
Common words with 凄
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 凄惨 (悽慘) | qī cǎn | plaintive; mournful |
| 凄凉 (悽涼) | qī liáng | mournful; miserable |
| 凄凉 (淒涼) | qī liáng | desolate (place) |
| 凄苦 (悽苦) | qī kǔ | bleak; miserable |
| 凄美 (淒美) | qī měi | poignant; sad and beautiful |
| 凄厉 (淒厲) | qī lì | mournful (sound) |
| 凄清 (淒清) | qī qīng | somber; cheerless |
| 凄迷 (悽迷) | qī mí | pained and bewildered |
| 凄婉 (淒婉) | qī wǎn | melancholy; moving and sad |
| 凄迷 (淒迷) | qī mí | dreary and fuzzy (sight) |
| 凄凄 (淒淒) | qī qī | cold and dismal |
| 凄然 (悽然) | qī rán | distressed |
English words written with 凄
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.