Character: 期
Modern (Beijing) reading: qī
Preclassic Old Chinese: gǝ
Classic Old Chinese: gǝ
Western Han Chinese: gǝ
Eastern Han Chinese: gǝ
Early Postclassic Chinese: gɨ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: gɨ
Late Postclassic Chinese: gɨ
Middle Chinese: gɨ
English meaning : stipulated time, time, limit
Russian meaning[s]: 1) срок; время; срочный; на срок; периодический; 2) обусловить сроком; обусловить (связать) контрактом; 3) надеяться, чаять, ожидать; [jī] 1) целый год; 2) годичный траур
Comments: Also read *kǝ, MC kɨ (FQ 居之), Pek. jī 'a year, a full fixed time'. Regular Sino-Viet. is kỳ. Viet. also has giò' 'hour; time'; khi 'time, case; when' - which may be loanwords from the same source (in different periods of history). For *g- cf. Xiamen ki2 (Chaozhou khi2 and modern Pek. qī are irregular).
Radical: 74
Four-angle index: 3501
Karlgren code: 0952 k, r-s
Go-on: go
Kan-on: ki
Japanese reading: ki;go
Vietnamese reading: cũ'
Shijing occurrences: 48.1, 48.2, 48.3, 58.1_
