期qī

期 (qī), meaning "a period of time" or "to expect," looks the same in simplified and traditional Chinese. The character originally showed a person (亻) waiting beside sunrise (日) over a hill (山), capturing the sense of anticipating a new day or season. This root meaning of expectation and duration lives on in words like 期待 (to look forward to), 时期 (period), and 星期 (week).