Character: 其
Modern (Beijing) reading: qí jī jì
Preclassic Old Chinese: gǝ kǝ kǝs
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 kɨ kɨ̀
Fanqie: 勤移 [a] 吉醫 [b] 紀異 [c]
Rhyme class: 支 [ab] 寘 [c]
English meaning : this; his, her, its, their
Russian meaning[s]: 1) притяжательное местоимение его, их; свой; 2) он, оно, они (обычно в функции подлежащего придаточного предложения); 3) этот, тот; 4) древн. выделяет сказуемое, часто с сильной эмоциональной окраской; 5) совершенно, вполне; 6) разве, неужели, вм. 豈; 7) в будущем, в дальнейшем, вм. 將; 8) или же, либо же, вм. 抑; [jī] древн. конечная модальная частица, подчеркивает вопросительный оттенок предложения
Shuowen gloss: ?
Comments: For initial *g- cf. Min forms: Xiamen, Fuzhou ki2, Jianou ki2, kɛ2 (Chaozhou khi2 is secondary). In early inscriptions *gǝ is more frequently used as a modal predicate: "might, will, probably, likely", but it is normally used as a pronoun in Shijing and Shujing. There also exists a variant reading *kǝ-s, MC kɨ̀ (FQ JY 居吏), Mand. jì 'this, that' (occurring rarely, and with not very clear syntactic functions). Finally, there is a reading *kǝ, MC kɨ (FQ 居之), Mand. jī, used as a final prosodic (originally pronominal?) particle - also rather rare.
Radical: 12
Four-angle index: 7867
Karlgren code: 0952 a-e
Shijing occurrences: 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 14.2, 14.3, 15.3, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 24.3, 25.1, 27.1, 27.2, 27.4, 28.1, 28.3, 28.4, 30.4, 31.1, 31.3, 32.4, 33.1, 33.2, 34.2, 35.2, 35.3, 35.4, 37.2, 41.1, 41.2, 41.3, 42.1, 42.2, 44.1, 44.2, 47.2, 47.3, 50.2, 51.2, 54.3, 54.4, 57.1, 58.3, 58.4
