气

See also: 氣, 気, and 炁

气 U+6C14, 气 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C14 ← 氓 [U+6C13] CJK Unified Ideographs 氕 → [U+6C15]

Translingual

Traditional	氣
Shinjitai	気
Simplified	气

Stroke order

Stroke order

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 气
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (气) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
愾	*kʰɯːds, *qʰɯds
忾	*qʰrɯl
刏	*kɯl, *ɡɯl, *kuːls
汽	*kʰɯds
氣	*kʰɯds, *qʰɯds
气	*kʰɯds
忥	*qʰɯds
餼	*qʰɯds
鎎	*qʰɯds
熂	*qʰɯds
霼	*qʰɯds
犔	*qʰɯds

Pictogram (象形)

A pictogram of an air flow. The glyph of 气 and 乞 comes from the same ancient form.

It also has simplified Chinese usage.

Han character

气 (radical 84, 气+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人一弓 (OMN) or X人一弓 (XOMN), four-corner 8001₇, composition ⿳𠂉一⺄)

1. Kangxi radical #84, ⽓.
2. Shuōwén Jiězì radical №8

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/气
• 汽

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

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 气 – see 氣 (“air; gas; breath; etc.”). (This character, 气, is the simplified and variant 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.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 气 – see 乞 (“to beg; to request; etc.”). (This character, 气, is a variant form of 乞.)

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 气 – see 餼 (“sacrificial victim; gift; etc.”). (This character, 气, is a variant form of 餼.)

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Japanese

Kanji

气

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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.

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Vietnamese

Han character

气: Hán Việt readings: khí

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References

• Nom Foundation