气

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

See also: 氣, 気, and 炁

Translingual

Traditional	氣
Shinjitai	気
Simplified	气

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 气
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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. In seal form, it was the same as 乞.

Also simplified from 氣 (elimination of 米)

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 (“steam”).
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. (This character, 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.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 气 – see 乞. (This character, 气, is a variant form of 乞.)

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 气 – see 餼. (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

• Hán Việt: khí

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References

• Nom Foundation