TSUMUGU · C1 (est.) · 字
畸
ㄐㄧ · jī
adj — irregular, lopsided, deformed
字源 FORM — what the parts do
ITqí → jī — initial and tone shifted off the donor
A field (田) and 奇 qí, which already means odd and unpaired. The leftover scrap a survey can't square into whole plots — the odd remainder of land. 奇 carries the sound, worn from qí to jī. From the misfit plot, anything off-true: 畸形、畸零、畸變.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
整片方田量過一遍，角上剩一塊奇（零頭）湊不齊——畸零地。
The whole field measured out, one odd (奇) scrap left in the corner that won't square up — the misfit plot.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)畸零、畸零地— the odd leftover plot of land
→畸形、畸變— deformed, abnormal常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension