棲 — Chinese character
棲
qī
perch, roost, to stay
- Pinyin
- qī
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 木 妻
- Formation
- pictophonetic — tree; meaning component 木; sound component 妻
- Simplified
- 栖
- Japanese
- 棲 as a kanji
棲 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 5
- Mencius 5A.2
- Zhuangzi Perfect Happiness
- Zhuangzi The Secret of Life
- Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
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.