季
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season; the last month of a season; fourth or youngest amongst brothers; classifier for seasonal crop yields
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,137 U+5B63
How 季 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
The time for planting seeds 子 of grain 禾
How to remember it
seasons · Heisig RSH #773
wild rice + 子 child
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 季 as their sound component
These characters all use 季 (jì) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 季 sound component | jì | a quarter-year, a season; surname |
| 悸 | jì | apprehensive, fearful; perturbed |
Words containing 季
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一年四季 | yī nián sì jì | all year round |
| 卡拉季奇 | Kǎ lā jì qí | Karadžić (Serbian surname); Radovan Karadžić (1945–), former Bosnian Serb leader, convicte… |
| 季节性 | jì jié xìng | seasonal |
| 四季如春 | sì jì rú chūn | four seasons like spring; favorable climate throughout the year |
| 反季节 | fǎn jì jié | off-season; out-of-season |
| 第一季度 | dì yī jì dù | first quarter (of financial year) |
| 第三季度 | dì sān jì dù | third quarter (of financial year) |
| 流感季 | liú gǎn jì | flu season |
| 第二季度 | dì èr jì dù | second quarter (of financial year) |
| 季后赛 | jì hòu sài | a playoff |
| 季子 | jì zǐ | youngest brother; a period of two or three months |
| 季雨林 | jì yǔ lín | monsoon forest |
| 第四季度 | dì sì jì dù | fourth quarter (of financial year) |
| 花季 | huā jì | youthful time; prime of youth; flowering season |
| 季会 | jì huì | quarterly meeting |
| 李季兰 | Lǐ Jì Lán | Li Jilan or Li Ye 李冶[Li3 Ye3] (713-784), Tang dynasty female poet |
| 季风 | jì fēng | monsoon |
| 四季豆 | sì jì dòu | green bean; French bean; runner bean |
| 季相 | jì xiàng | characteristic nature of some season |
| 哈季奇 | Hā jì qí | Goran Hadžić (1958-2016), Croatian Serb leader until 1994, indicted war criminal |