Character: 奇
Modern (Beijing) reading: qí
Preclassic Old Chinese: kaj
Classic Old Chinese: kaj
Western Han Chinese: kaj
Eastern Han Chinese: ke
Early Postclassic Chinese: ke
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ke
Late Postclassic Chinese: ke
Middle Chinese: ke
English meaning : odd, single, one of a pair
Russian meaning[s]: 1) странный, необыкновенный; редкий; 2) удивляться, изумляться
Comments: Missing from Schüssler's dictionary, although attested already in Yijing. A somewhat later [LZ] reading (obviously related to *kaj) is OC *gaj, MC ge, Mand. qí, Viet. kỳ 'extraordinary, strange'. For *g here cf. Xiamen, Fuzhou ki2 (Chaozhou khi2 is secondary).
Radical: 37
Four-angle index: 3004
Karlgren code: 0001 s
Vietnamese reading: co'
