季

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season; the last month of a season; fourth or youngest amongst brothers; classifier for seasonal crop yields

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

The time for planting seeds 子 of grain 禾

Components 禾子

seasons · Heisig RSH #773

wild rice + 子 child

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
一年四季	yī nián sì jì	all year round
卡拉季奇	Kǎ lā jì qí	Karadžić (Serbian surname); Radovan Karadžić (1945–), former Bosnian Serb leader, convicte…
季节性	jì jié xìng	seasonal
四季如春	sì jì rú chūn	four seasons like spring; favorable climate throughout the year
反季节	fǎn jì jié	off-season; out-of-season
第一季度	dì yī jì dù	first quarter (of financial year)
第三季度	dì sān jì dù	third quarter (of financial year)
流感季	liú gǎn jì	flu season
第二季度	dì èr jì dù	second quarter (of financial year)
季后赛	jì hòu sài	a playoff
季子	jì zǐ	youngest brother; a period of two or three months
季雨林	jì yǔ lín	monsoon forest
第四季度	dì sì jì dù	fourth quarter (of financial year)
花季	huā jì	youthful time; prime of youth; flowering season
季会	jì huì	quarterly meeting
李季兰	Lǐ Jì Lán	Li Jilan or Li Ye 李冶[Li3 Ye3] (713-784), Tang dynasty female poet
季风	jì fēng	monsoon
四季豆	sì jì dòu	green bean; French bean; runner bean
季相	jì xiàng	characteristic nature of some season
哈季奇	Hā jì qí	Goran Hadžić (1958-2016), Croatian Serb leader until 1994, indicted war criminal

These characters use 季 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
季 sound part	jì	a quarter-year, a season; surname
悸	jì	apprehensive, fearful; perturbed