歧 (qí): divergent, side road
歧 (qí) is a Chinese character meaning “divergent.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 止 (semantic) and 支 (phonetic). It ranks #2038 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 歧 stop. Its radical form 止 (stop) appears in many related characters such as 正 (zhèng, straight), 止 (zhǐ, to stop), 此 (cǐ, this).
Definitions
- divergent
- side road
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 歧视verb | qí shì | to discriminate against |
| 分歧noun | fēn qí | divergent |
| 种族歧视noun | zhǒng zú qí shì | racial discrimination |
| 歧途noun | qí tú | fork in a road |
| 误入歧途phrase | wù rù qí tú | to take a wrong step in life (idiom) |
| 歧义adjective | qí yì | ambiguity |
| 歧路noun | qí lù | divergent path |
| 消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约 | xiāo chú duì fù nǚ yī qiè xíng shì qí shì gōng yuē | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women |
| 性别歧视noun | xìng bié qí shì | sex discrimination |
| 分歧点 | fēn qí diǎn | point of disagreement |
| 消除歧义 | xiāo chú qí yì | to disambiguate |
| 消歧义verb | xiāo qí yì | to remove ambiguity |
| 歧见noun | qí jiàn | disagreement |
| 歧路灯 | qí lù dēng | Lamp in the Side Street, novel by Qing dynasty writer Li Lüyuan 李綠園|李绿园 |
| 歧异noun | qí yì | difference |
歧 appears in 15 compound words: 47 as the first character, 7 as the last, and 47 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 歧 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (3)
Example Sentences
这个歧字在古汉语中有不同的含义。
zhè gě qí zì zài gǔ hàn yǔ zhōng yǒu bù tóng de hán yì .
The character "歧" had different meanings in Classical Chinese.
加总理卡尼出访建功?陆暂停征收加拿大反歧视关税
jiā zǒng lǐ kǎ ní chū fǎng jiàn gōng ? lù zàn tíng zhēng shōu jiā ná dà fǎn qí shì guān shuì
Canadian Prime Minister Carney's visit to make contributions? The land suspended the collection of anti-discrimination tariffs on Canada
美韩3/9自由护盾联合演习 对缩减规模有歧见
měi hán 3 9 zì yóu hù dùn lián gě yǎn xí duì suō jiǎn guī mó yǒu qí jiàn
The U.S.-South Korea 3/9 Freedom Shield joint exercise has disagreements about the scale reduction
特斯拉被指控招聘时歧视美国公民,美法官裁定诉讼继续推进
tè sī lā bèi zhǐ kòng zhāo pìn shí qí shì měi guó gōng mín , měi fǎ guān cái dìng sù sòng jì xù tuī jìn
Tesla was accused of discriminating against U.S. citizens in hiring, and a U.S. judge ruled that the lawsuit continued to move forward
加纳与多哥海疆分歧将国际仲裁
jiā nà yǔ duō gē hǎi jiāng fēn qí jiāng guó jì zhòng cái
Ghana and Togo will arbitrate internationally due to maritime disputes
是在这点上我们的意见有分歧。
Shì zài zhè diǎn shàng wǒmen de yìjiàn yǒu fēnqí.
It's on this point that our opinions differ.
因为人的种族而歧视他们是一种错误。
Yīnwèi rén de zhǒngzú ér qíshì tāmen shì yīzhǒng cuòwù.
Discriminating against people because of their race is a mistake.
很明显的是这两者之间有很强烈的分歧。
Hěn míngxiǎn de shì zhè liǎngzhě zhījiān yǒu hěn qiángliè de fēnqí.
It's clear that there's a rather strong disagreement between the two.
吉姆有时与他的妻子意见分歧。
Jí mǔ yǒushí yǔ tā de qīzi yìjiàn fēnqí.
Jim sometimes has disagreements with his wife.
问路总比误入歧途好。
Wènlù zǒng bǐ wùrùqítú hǎo.
Better to ask the way than go astray.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 止 (stop) component
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