基
(bound form) base; foundation; (bound form) radical (chemistry); (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #164 U+57FA
How 基 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 其 (phonetic, qí)
How to remember it
base · Heisig RSH #1337
hamper + 土 soil
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 其
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 其 (qí) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 其 sound component | qí | his, her, its, their; that |
| 期 | qī | a period of time; date, time; phase |
| 旗 | qí | banner, flag, streamer |
| 棋 | qí | chess; any strategy game |
| 欺 | qī | to cheat, to double-cross, to deceive |
| 淇 | qí | a river in Henan province |
| 箕 | jī | sieve; dust pan; garbage bag |
| 琪 | qí | fine jade |
| 麒 | qí | mythical unicorn |
| 祺 | qí | good luck, good fortune |
| 萁 | qí | pulses, legumes |
| 綦 | qí | dark gray; variegated; superlative |
| 骐 | qí | piebald horse; excellent horse |
| 蜞 | qí | lightfoot crab; worm, leech |
| 鲯 | qí | ray-finned fish; Coryphaena hippurus |
Words containing 基
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 高尔基体 | Gāo ěr jī tǐ | Golgi apparatus |
| 海基会 | Hǎi jī huì | Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), semi-official organization established by the ROC gover… |
| 高尔基 | Gāo ěr jī | Gorkii (name); Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist |
| 基金会 | jī jīn huì | foundation (institution supported by an endowment) |
| 西科尔斯基 | Xī kē ěr sī jī | Sikorski (name); Radosław Sikorski (1950-), Polish conservative politician, foreign minist… |
| 马利基 | Mǎ lì jī | Maliki or Al-Maliki (name); Nouri Kamel al-Maliki (1950-) prime minister of Iraq 2006-2014 |
| 基尔特 | jī ěr tè | guild (loanword) |
| 自然科学基金会 | zì rán kē xué jī jīn huì | natural science fund |
| 水基 | shuǐ jī | water-based |
| 基里巴斯 | Jī lǐ bā sī | Kiribati |
| 地基 | dì jī | foundations (of a building); base |
| 基地 | Jī dì | al-Qaeda |
| 基地 | jī dì | base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc) |
| 基尔 | Jī ěr | Kiel (German city) |
| 马兰基地 | Mǎ lán jī dì | Malan military base and atomic test site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古… |
| 基金 | jī jīn | fund |
| 基体 | jī tǐ | base body; matrix; substrate |
| 海空军基地 | hǎi kōng jūn jī dì | naval and air military base |
| 基面 | jī miàn | ground plane (in perspective drawing) |
| 面基 | miàn jī | (slang) (of online friends) to meet up in person |