HSK 3 · Verbs

骑 qí “to ride an animal or bike” in Chinese

Traditional 騎

What 骑 means

  1. to ride an animal or bike
  2. to sit astride
  3. to ride (a horse, bike etc)
  4. classifier for saddle horses

How to say 骑

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale骑qí2nd tone, rising

骑 in a sentence

  1. 她骑自行车去上学。

    Tā qí zìxíngchē qù shàngxué.

    She rides her bike to school.

    Sentence #475843 from Tatoeba

  2. 我没有车，所以我一般骑自行车去上班。

    Wǒ méiyǒu chē, suǒyǐ wǒ yìbān qí zìxíngchē qù shàngbān.

    I don’t have a car, so I usually ride my bike to work.

    Sentence #13361711 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 昨天我第一次骑了马。

    Zuótiān wǒ dìyī cì qí le mǎ.

    I rode a horse for the first time yesterday.

    Sentence #8792046 from Tatoeba

How 骑 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 骑 (qí) with each of its parts in a different colour
骑qíto sit astride
  • 马horse · mǎMeaning part
  • 奇strange · jīSound part

马 hints at the meaning (horse); 奇 (jī) hints at the sound. Compare it with qí.

How to write 骑

骑 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

骑 (qí) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 骑 (qí). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 骑

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FAQs

骑 (qí) means “to ride an animal or bike” or “to sit astride”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it qí: qí with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 骑 is written 騎. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 骑 from the suggestions. Typing qi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
骑 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.