Memory phrase for the character: 棋

棋

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Meaning

chess

Pronunciation

 qí

Explanation

 Left: tree 木, right: image of a grain shovel/scoop 其 (tool for threshing that is used for throwing up the grain rhythmically [ thus used in period 期] to divide the grain from the husk) [here: 其 as the play field]

Mnemonic
 
There is a wooden play field at: chess.

Radicals

木 tree
其 grain shovel/scoopWith a grain scoop 其 (tool for threshing), grain was rhythmically [thus used in period 期] thrown up to shed the grain from the husk. (cf. to winnow 簸)
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 Vocabulary

棋子 qí zǐ  chess piece
象棋 xiàng qí  Chinese chess
棋盘 qí pán  chessboard
棋盘 qí pán  

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