氣
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TranslingualEdit
| Traditional | 氣 |
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| Shinjitai | 気 |
| Simplified | 气 |
Han characterEdit
氣 (radical 84, 气+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人弓火木 (ONFD), four-corner 80917, composition ⿹气米)
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 599, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17059
- Dae Jaweon: page 990, character 26
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2011, character 14
- Unihan data for U+6C23
ChineseEdit
| trad. | 氣 | |
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| simp. | 气* | |
| alt. forms | 𣱛 ‡ | |
Glyph originEdit
| Historical forms of the character 氣 | ||
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| Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Qin slip script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (气) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰɯds, *qʰɯds): phonetic 气 (OC *kʰɯds) + semantic 米 (“rice”) – to give rice as a gift.
Later borrowed meanings of “air, flow” from 气 (OC *kʰɯds). The derivative 餼 (OC *qʰɯds) refers to the original word. Compare 乞 (OC *kʰɯds, *kʰɯd).
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
氣
- air; gas
- breath (Classifier: 口 m; 啖 c)
- (Chinese philosophy) qi; vital energy; life force
- smell; odour
- angriness
- to get angry
- to make angry; to annoy
- to breathe
- quality; character; spirit; mettle
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 氣
DescendantsEdit
JapaneseEdit
| 気 | |
| 氣 |
KanjiEdit
氣
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 気)
ReadingsEdit
Usage notesEdit
Not used in modern Japanese. Replaced by the shinjitai form 気.
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
氣 • (gi) (hangeul 기, McCune–Reischauer ki, Yale ki)
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