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

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:

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.)

Japanese

Kanji

气

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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

Readings

Usage notes

  • This character exists only as a radical in Japanese. The corresponding character is 気.

Vietnamese

Han character

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References

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