基
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(bound form) base; foundation; (bound form) radical (chemistry); (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
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- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 土 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 基
- Common rank
- #164
- Unicode
- U+57FA
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Formation & memory
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Words with 基
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 高尔基体 | Golgi apparatus | |
| 海基会 | Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), semi-official organization established by the ROC gover… | |
| 高尔基 | Gorkii (name); Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist | |
| 基金会 | foundation (institution supported by an endowment) | |
| 西科尔斯基 | Sikorski (name); Radosław Sikorski (1950-), Polish conservative politician, foreign minist… | |
| 马利基 | Maliki or Al-Maliki (name); Nouri Kamel al-Maliki (1950-) prime minister of Iraq 2006-2014 | |
| 基尔特 | guild (loanword) | |
| 自然科学基金会 | natural science fund | |
| 水基 | water-based | |
| 基里巴斯 | Kiribati | |
| 地基 | foundations (of a building); base | |
| 基地 | al-Qaeda | |
| 基地 | base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc) | |
| 基尔 | Kiel (German city) | |
| 马兰基地 | Malan military base and atomic test site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古… | |
| 基金 | fund | |
| 基体 | base body; matrix; substrate | |
| 海空军基地 | naval and air military base | |
| 基面 | ground plane (in perspective drawing) | |
| 面基 | (slang) (of online friends) to meet up in person |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 其 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 其 sound part | his, her, its, their; that | |
| 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 |