奇 : Strange

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Components:

大

strange, strangeness, curiosity

On 'yomi:

キ(ki)

Kun 'yomi:

く.しき(ku.shiki) あや.しい(aya.shii) くし(kushi) めずら.しい(mezura.shii)

Strokes:	8
Radical:	大 (37)
Usage Rating:	1367

JLPT:	N1
old JLPT:	1
Grade:	8

Unicode:	05947
jis208:	20-81

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奇 Usage examples

好奇(こうき)	inquisitiveness
奇矯な癖(ききょうなへき)	eccentric habit
奇偶(きぐう)	odd and even numbers
奇人(きじん)	queer fellow, odd fellow, eccentric person, crank, oddball, freak
奇なる(きなる)	odd, strange, eccentric
奇を衒う(きをてらう) 奇をてらう(きをてらう)	to deliberately act oddly (e.g. to get attention)
偏奇(へんき)	eccentricity
奇術師(きじゅつし)	conjurer, magician, juggler, illusionist
奇想曲(きそうきょく)	capriccio
奇襲攻撃(きしゅうこうげき)	surprise attack, ambush
奇怪千万(きっかいせんばん)	very strange (mysterious, weird), bizarre, monstrous, outrageous
異聞奇譚(いぶんきたん)	strange stories and curious tales
雨奇晴好(うきせいこう)	scenery being beautiful in both rainy and sunny weather
傾奇者(かぶきもの)	dandy, peacock, early-17th-century equivalent of present-day yakuza, Edo-period eccentric who attracted public attention with their eye-catching clothes, peculiar hairstyle, and weird behavior
奇貨可居(きかかきょ) 奇貨居くべし(きかかきょ)	You must seize every golden opportunity, Strike while the iron is hot, When you find a rare good buy, seize upon it for a future sale at a much higher price
晴好雨奇(せいこううき)	the scenery being beautiful in both sunny and rainy weather
複雑奇怪(ふくざつきかい)	complex and mysterious (bizarre), complicated and inscrutable
猟奇小説(りょうきしょうせつ)	bizarre story (novel)
猟奇文学(りょうきぶんがく)	bizarre literature, the literature of the bizarre
奇譚(きたん)	mysterious story
奇妙な話だが(きみょうなはなしだが)	curiously enough, oddly enough, strange to tell
奇(き)	strange, unconventional
奇蹄目(きていもく)	Perissodactyla (order of odd-toed ungulates, incl. horses, tapirs, etc.)
事実は小説より奇なり(じじつはしょうせつよりきなり) 事実は小説より奇也(じじつはしょうせつよりきなり)	truth is stranger than fiction
事実は小説よりも奇なり(じじつはしょうせつよりもきなり)	truth is stranger than fiction
奇しき(くしき)	strange, mysterious, queer
奇祭(きさい)	strange festival, festival with bizarre or unusual ritual