其
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his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)
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- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 八 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 其
- Common rank
- #488
- Unicode
- U+5176
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Formation & memory
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Words with 其
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大行其道 | rampant; very popular | |
| 上下其手 | to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint; fig. conspiring t… | |
| 其来有自 | there is a reason for it; (of sth) not incidental | |
| 反其道而行之 | to do the very opposite; to act in a diametrically opposite way | |
| 出其不意 | to do sth when least expected (idiom); to catch sb off guard | |
| 文如其人 | the writing style mirrors the writer (idiom) | |
| 如无其事 | see 若無其事|若无其事[ruo4 wu2 qi2 shi4] | |
| 不得其门而入 | to be unable to get into (a house, an organization, a field of study, a particular type of… | |
| 知其不可而为之 | to keep going resolutely despite knowing the task is impossible (idiom) | |
| 人如其名 | (idiom) to live up to one's name; true to one's name | |
| 自得其乐 | to find amusement in one's own way; to enjoy oneself quietly | |
| 自食其力 | lit. to eat off one's own strength (idiom); fig. to stand on one's own feet; to earn one's… | |
| 不计其数 | lit. their number cannot be counted (idiom); fig. countless; innumerable | |
| 其自身 | one's own (respective); proprietary | |
| 乐见其成 | to look favorably on sth; would be glad see it happen | |
| 以其人之道，还治其人之身 | to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confu… | |
| 果不其然 | (idiom) just as expected | |
| 其一 | one of the given (options etc); the first; firstly | |
| 无所不用其极 | committing all manner of crimes; completely unscrupulous | |
| 沙其马 | variant of 沙琪瑪|沙琪玛[sha1 qi2 ma3] |
Sound family
These characters use 其 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 其 sound part | his, her, its, their; that | |
| 基 | foundation, base | |
| 期 | a period of time; date, time; phase | |
| 旗 | banner, flag, streamer | |
| 棋 | chess; any strategy game | |
| 欺 | to cheat, to double-cross, to deceive | |
| 淇 | a river in Henan province | |
| 箕 | sieve; dust pan; garbage bag | |
| 琪 | fine jade | |
| 麒 | mythical unicorn | |
| 祺 | good luck, good fortune | |
| 萁 | pulses, legumes | |
| 綦 | dark gray; variegated; superlative | |
| 骐 | piebald horse; excellent horse | |
| 蜞 | lightfoot crab; worm, leech | |
| 鲯 | ray-finned fish; Coryphaena hippurus |