气

See also: 氣, 気, and 炁

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形)

A pictograme of an air flow.

In seal form, it was the same as 乞.

Han character

气 (radical 84 气+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人一弓 (OMN), X人一弓 (XOMN), four-corner 8001₇)

1. KangXi radical 84

References

• KangXi: page 599, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17043
• Dae Jaweon: page 990, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2010, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6C14

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 气 – see 氣. (This term, 气, is the simplified form of 氣.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

气

(Radical)

1. spirit
2. air
3. steam radical (きがまえ,kigamae)

Readings

• Goon: け (ke)
• Kan’on: き (ki)
• Kun: いき (iki)

Usage notes

• This character exists only as a radical in Japanese. The corresponding character is 気.
• An exception is 安气子.

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: khí

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References

• Nom Foundation