纪

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order; discipline; age; era; period; to chronicle

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

纟 meaning “thread” + 己 sound ( jǐ )

Components 纟己

epoch · Heisig RSH #1088

thread + snake

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
目无法纪	mù wú fǎ jì	with no regard for law or discipline (idiom); flouting the law and disregarding all rules;…
大纪元时报	Dà Jì yuán Shí bào	Epoch Times, US newspaper
日本书纪	Rì běn shū jì	Nihonshoki or Chronicles of Japan (c. 720) book of mythology and history
二十一世纪	èr shí yī shì jì	21st century
经纪人	jīng jì rén	broker; middleman; agent; manager
上年纪	shàng nián jì	(of a person) to get old
中世纪	zhōng shì jì	medieval; Middle Ages
上了年纪	shàng le nián jì	to be getting on in years; to be of the older generation
纪传体	jì zhuàn tǐ	history genre based on biography, such as Sima Qian's Record of the Historian
全新纪	Quán xīn jì	(geology) the Holocene Epoch
二十世纪	èr shí shì jì	20th century
吉尼斯世界纪录	Jí ní sī Shì jiè Jì lù	Guinness World Records
大纪元	Dà Jì yuán	Epoch Times, US newspaper
寒武纪生命大爆发	Hán wǔ jì shēng mìng dà bào fā	the Cambrian explosion
列王纪上	Liè wáng jì shàng	First book of Kings
列王纪下	Liè wáng jì xià	Second book of Kings
新纪元	Xīn jì yuán	New Age (movement)
新纪元	xīn jì yuán	new era; new epoch
三岛由纪夫	Sān dǎo Yóu jì fū	Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威\|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)
法纪	fǎ jì	law and order; rules and discipline

Characters sharing the sound component 己 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
己 sound part	jǐ	self, oneself; personal, private; 6th heavenly stem
起	qǐ	to begin, to initiate; to rise, to stand up
配	pèi	to blend, to mix; to fit, to match
忌	jì	jealous, envious; to fear; to shun
杞	qǐ	willow, medlar tree; a small feudal state
岂	qǐ	what; how
芑	qǐ	white millet
圮	pǐ	destroyed, ruined; to injure; to subvert
屺	qǐ	a grassy knoll; a barren knoll