Definify.com
Definition 2025
气
气
Translingual
| Traditional | 氣 |
|---|---|
| Shinjitai | 気 |
| Simplified | 气 |
| Stroke order | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| |||
| Stroke order | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| |||
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)
- Kangxi radical #84, ⽓ (“steam”).
- Shuōwén Jiězì radical №8
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
Chinese
Etymology 1
| For pronunciation and definitions of 气 – see 氣. (This character, 气, is the simplified form of 氣.) |
Notes:
|
Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 气 – see 乞. (This character, 气, is a variant form of 乞.) |
Japanese
Kanji
气
(Radical)
- spirit
- air
- steam radical (きがまえ,kigamae)
Readings
Usage notes
- This character exists only as a radical in Japanese. The corresponding character is 気.
- An exception is 安气子.
Vietnamese
Han character
- This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}.
References
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)