Zi:七

七 [qī] seven; (​周​易) young/unbreaking/unchanging ​阳/​陽 yáng male line (⚌)

One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):

►¹qī ​七 {A} num. seven; 7 ◆b.f. each of seven seventh-day memorials after a death ‖ èr ∼ 二∼ second seventh-day memorial ◆cons. ∼ A bā B topsy-turvy AB ‖ ∼shàngbāxià ∼上八下 confused ‖ ∼dàbāxiǎo ∼大八小 of unequal size

The character 七 qī ‘seven’ (2 strokes) is the usual number form (​小​写), in special contexts also wr. in the elaborate for ​㭍/​柒 (​大​写); formerly wr. ​𠀁.
    The Shuōwén Seal form of 七(​𠀁) qī ‘seven’, the number of the young/unchanging male ⚌ (​周​易), is said to combine a horizontal ​阳/​陽 yáng ‘male/bright’ line ​一(⚊), with a curved vertical line representing its struggle to remain unchanged in the face of incipient/seductive ​阴/​陰 yīn ‘female/dark’ forces (⚋).
    Compare: (​周​易) 七(​𠀁) ‘young/unchanging male’ (⚊→⚊⇒⚌); ​六 ‘old/changing female’ (⚋→⚊⇒⚍/⚎).
    Compare: (​周​易) ​九(​𢌬) ‘old/changing male’ (⚊→⚋⇒⚎/⚍); ​八 ‘young/unchanging female’ (⚋→⚋⇒⚏).
    Note: The digram ⚌ ‘young/unchanging male’ doubles ⚊ ‘male’; doubling signifies unchanging, the lower line type (in the present) remains the same as the upper line type (in the future).
    Compare: ​丂 kǎo/qiǎo (​巧); ​屯 zhūn (䷂); ​丨 gǔn/shù/sì.
    Compare: ​〇 ‘0’ (☷), ​一 ‘1’ (☳), ​二 ‘2’ (☵), ​三 ‘3’ (☱), ​四 ‘4’ (☶), ​五 ‘5’ (☲), ​六 ‘6’ (☴), 七 ‘7’ (☰), ​八 ‘8’ (𝌓), ​九 ‘9’ (𝌒), ​十 ‘10’ (𝌐), ….
    Note: The even digits ​〇、​二、​四、​六、​八、​十 are all symmetrical; and after ​一 and ​三, odd digits ​五、七、​九 are asymmetrical.
    The oldest graphs associated with 七 qī ‘seven’ look like modern ​十 shí ‘ten’; the old graphs associated with ​十 ‘ten’ were wr. with ​丨 a single vertical line, or else a dot was added in the middle of ​丨; the dot was eventually lengthened, giving shapes like modern ​十; then, in order to distinguish 七 from ​十, the central line of 七(​𠀁) became curved.
    HDZ: 七 : qī : (​数​词) ​六​加​一​的​和; (​文​体​名) 七​体: ​骚​赋​的​一​种 (​骚​体); ​人​死​后, ​每七​天​一​祭, ​至​四​十​九​日​为​止 (​满七); ​人​日, ​农​历​正​月​初七; (​姓)
►references: Guǎngyùn:468.43; Wieger:33a; Henshall:30; Karlgren:AD1055,GSR400a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.3.3; Lindqvist:337; Mathews:579; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:75.07; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:001.0.07; Wáng(1993):112; EDOC:1
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