Mnemonic comic for 其
Mnemonic
Mnemonic symbol: the shape of 其 looks like a watchtower. The Queen of Hearts (qi) is on lookout on the watchtower (其) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). The Eye of Providence (目) helps her to look out for intruders. They also spread some eight balls (八) for possible intruders to trip on.
其 character breakdown
eye / (literary) to look; to regard / eye (of a net); mesh / mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]) / item; section / list; catalogue / (taxonomy) order / name; title
eight; 8
Characters with 其 as component
(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
variant of 棋[qi2]
棋
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木
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The Queen of Hearts (qi) got a little bored on the space station, so she started to play a game of chess (棋) against herself just inside the entrance (Ø2). She was so bored that she also invented new figures like the Christmas tree (木). It moves like the watchtower (其), but with each move it has a 1d20 chance to randomly distribute presents on the board.
variant of 棋[qi2]
棋
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其
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木
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The Queen of Hearts (qi) got a little bored on the space station, so she started to play a game of chess (棋) against herself just inside the entrance (Ø2). She was so bored that she also invented new figures like the Christmas tree (木). It moves like the watchtower (其), but with each move it has a 1d20 chance to randomly distribute presents on the board.
chess / chess-like game / a game of chess / CL:盤|盘[pan2] / chess piece / CL:個|个[ge4],顆|颗[ke1]
棋
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其
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木
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The Queen of Hearts (qi) got a little bored on the space station, so she started to play a game of chess (棋) against herself just inside the entrance (Ø2). She was so bored that she also invented new figures like the Christmas tree (木). It moves like the watchtower (其), but with each move it has a 1d20 chance to randomly distribute presents on the board.
a period of time / phase / stage / classifier for issues of a periodical, courses of study / time / term / period / to hope / Taiwan pr. [qi2]
期
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月
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Recently the Queen of Hearts (qi) has become an astronomer. In front of the space station (Ø1) she sits on top of a watchtower (其) and watches the moon (月). From the moon's movement around the tower she wants to calculate its period and phase (期). She didn't consider though that not only the moon is orbiting around her, she is also orbiting the moon.
variant of 期[qi1] / period / cycle
期
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月
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Recently the Queen of Hearts (qi) has become an astronomer. In front of the space station (Ø1) she sits on top of a watchtower (其) and watches the moon (月). From the moon's movement around the tower she wants to calculate its period and phase (期). She didn't consider though that not only the moon is orbiting around her, she is also orbiting the moon.
flag / variant of 旗[qi2]
旗
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方
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𠂉
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其
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Normally the Queen of Hearts (qi) has her banner (旗) hanging on the top of the watchtower (其) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2), but today a strange banner (旗) with a square (方) on it is hanging there instead. The Queen of Hearts wants to go up there to get the banner down, but somehow her key (𠂉) doesn't open the door anymore.
banner / flag / (in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗[Ba1 qi2]) / administrative subdivision in inner Mongolia equivalent to 縣|县[xian4] county / CL:面[mian4]
旗
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方
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𠂉
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其
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Normally the Queen of Hearts (qi) has her banner (旗) hanging on the top of the watchtower (其) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2), but today a strange banner (旗) with a square (方) on it is hanging there instead. The Queen of Hearts wants to go up there to get the banner down, but somehow her key (𠂉) doesn't open the door anymore.
Slovakia / Slovak / abbr. for 斯洛伐克[Si1 luo4 fa2 ke4]
(phonetic) / this
to take unfair advantage of / to deceive / to cheat
fine jade
Words with 其
lit. their number cannot be counted (idiom); fig. countless / innumerable
to satisfy rival demands (idiom) / to get the best of both worlds / to have it both ways / to have one's cake and eat it too
not to mind taking all the trouble (idiom) / to take great pains / to be very patient
(literary) (similar to 多麼|多么[duo1 me5], used before an adjective in exclamations) how (fortunate etc) / so (many etc)
to let things take their course (idiom) / to leave it to nature / laissez-faire
to be discontented with one's home / to have adulterous relations after marriage (of women) (idiom)
to be unable to get in / to fail to find a proper approach to handling sth
words of a man on his deathbed always come from the heart (proverb)
employ one's talent to the fullest / everyone gives of their best
employ one's talent to the fullest / everyone gives of their best / also written 人盡其才|人尽其才
to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹[Zhu1 Xi1]); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game / to give sb a taste of his own medicine
internal disunity dissolves at the threat of an invasion from outside (idiom)
to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint / fig. conspiring to defraud