奇 means “strange, rare, odd”

き · ki

Also: strangeness, curiosity

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading): くしき, あやしい, くし, めずらしい
On'yomi (Chinese reading): キ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 8 strokes

The story

Big (大) over 可: picture a giant teetering on one leg. 奇 is the strange and the rare: 奇妙 is weird, 奇跡 is a miracle, and 好奇心 is curiosity, while an old sense, unpaired, lives on in 奇数, the odd numbers.

Used in 奇妙 (kimyou, strange), 奇跡 (kiseki, miracle), and 好奇心 (koukishin, curiosity)

奇 means “strange, rare, odd”

The story

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