棋 — Chinese character
棋
qí
chess; any strategy game
- Pinyin
- qí
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 木 其
- Formation
- pictophonetic — wood; meaning component 木; sound component 其
- Japanese
- 棋 as a kanji
Common words with 棋
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 围棋 (圍棋) | wéi qí | the game of Go |
| 棋子 | qí zǐ | chess piece; 个 (gè),颗 (kē) |
| 象棋 | xiàng qí | Chinese chess; measure word: 副 (fù) |
| 棋盘 (棋盤) | qí pán | chessboard |
| 下棋 | xià qí | to play chess |
| 棋手 | qí shǒu | chess player |
| 国际象棋 (國際象棋) | guó jì xiàng qí | chess; measure word: 副 (fù) |
| 棋局 | qí jú | state of play in a game of chess; (old) chessboard |
| 西洋棋 | xī yáng qí | chess |
| 星罗棋布 (星羅棋布) | xīng luó qí bù | scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom); spread all over the place |
| 棋艺 (棋藝) | qí yì | chess skill |
| 跳棋 | tiào qí | Chinese checkers |
English words written with 棋
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.