騎 (qí)
to ride (horse, bike, motorcycle)
How 騎 is written
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 馬 — horse
- Traditional
- 騎
- Simplified
- 骑
騎 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- jì
- (Taiwan) saddle horse; mounted soldier
- qí
- to ride (an animal or bike); to sit astride
Common words using 騎
- 騎兵 qíbīng
- cavalry
- 騎士 qíshì
- horseman; cavalryman; knight (i.e. European nobility)
- 騎車 qíchē
- to cycle
- 騎馬 qímǎ
- to ride a horse
- 勢成騎虎 shìchéngqíhǔ
- if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway
- 輕騎 qīngqí
- light cavalry; light motorcycle; moped
- 騎射 qíshè
- equestrian archery; riding and shooting
- 騎師 qíshī
- a jockey; a horse-rider; a horseman
- 騎樓 qílóu
- arcade (architecture)
- 騎虎難下 qíhǔnánxià
- if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway
- 騎術 qíshù
- equestrianism; horsemanship
- 騎警 qíjǐng
- mounted police (on horse or motorbike)
騎 in a sentence
我騎機車上班。
Wǒ qí jīchē shàngbān.
“I ride a scooter to work.”
How common is 騎?
騎 is the 1,396th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 93.8% of all running text.
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