Character: 騎
Modern (Beijing) reading: qí
Preclassic Old Chinese: ghaj
Classic Old Chinese: ghaj
Western Han Chinese: ghaj
Eastern Han Chinese: ghe
Early Postclassic Chinese: ghe
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ghe
Late Postclassic Chinese: ghe
Middle Chinese: ge
English meaning : to ride, sit astride [L.Zhou]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) ехать верхом; оседлать; ехать на (лошади; велосипеде); 2) кавалерист, конник; 3) оседланная и взнузданная лошадь
Comments: Also read *ghaj-s, MC gè, Mand. jì 'saddled horse; horse warrior'. Viet. cõ'i is colloquial (with a variant cu'õ'i); regular Sino-Viet. is kỵ. For *gh- cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou khia2, Fuzhou khä2.
Radical: 187
Four-angle index: 3017
Karlgren code: 0001 u
Vietnamese reading: cõ'i
Jianchuan Bai: kɨ7
Dali Bai: kɨ7
Bijiang Bai: kɨ1
