Chinese symbol for “profiteering”

居奇

jū qí

to hoard; to speculate; profiteering

The closest CC-CEDICT match for profiteering is 居奇 (jū qí), defined as: to hoard; to speculate; profiteering.

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Characters and stroke order

居 jū

to live, to reside; to dwell; to sit

radical 44 ⼫ · 8 strokes

奇 qí

strange, unusual, odd; uncanny, occult

radical 37 ⼤ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 居奇.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
居民	jū mín	resident; inhabitant
居住	jū zhù	to reside; to dwell
居然	jū rán	unexpectedly; to one's surprise
邻居 (鄰居)	lín jū	neighbor
定居	dìng jū	to settle (in some city, country etc); to take up residence
位居	wèi jū	to be located at
奇怪	qí guài	strange; odd
传奇 (傳奇)	chuán qí	legendary; fantasy saga

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.