Common Meanings
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qī七
The number seven; six plus one. (Often written as '柒' in financial documents to prevent alteration).
一个星期有七天。
There are seven days in a week.
A literary genre, also known as 'Qī Tǐ', a variant form of fu (rhapsody).
《七发》是西汉辞赋家枚乘的代表作，属于七体文。
Qī Fā is a representative work by Mei Cheng, a rhapsody writer of the Western Han dynasty, and belongs to the Qī Tǐ literary genre.
In traditional Chinese customs, '七' (qī) refers to one of the seven memorial ceremonies held every seven days after a person's death, a practice commonly known as '做七' (zuòqī).
今天是我们给爷爷做的三七。
Today we held the 'sānqī' (third of the seven-day memorial ceremonies) for Grandpa.