气

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Radical 84 气

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

1. Kangxi radical #84, ⽓.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №8

• Appendix:Chinese radical/气
• 㐹, 𠯏, 𡉛, 𪨦, 忾, 㧉, 汽, 𨸛, 𣅠, 䏗, 𣏙, 𪸕, 𤽍, 𥐬, 𥝬, 𥸽, 𥾨, 𫊨, 𧥷, 𧺞, 𨥊, 靔, 𩚤(饩), 𩡹, 𪌇, 㡮, 𪗟
• 刏, 㔕, 㪂, 㰟, 𩑡, 𩾻, 忥, 𧉁, 芞, 𥤶, 𤴸

• 氣 (Orthodox traditional form)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 599, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17043
• Dae Jaweon: page 990, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2010, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6C14

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

Pictogram (象形) : clouds flowing through the sky.

In the oracle bone script, it was represented by three horizontal strokes, expressing the "feeling" of the sky. However, in order to avoid confusion with the number 三 (OC *suːm, *suːms), 气 (OC *kʰɯds) was changed to draw a small stroke from top to bottom.

Its variant is 乞 (OC *kʰɯds, *kʰɯd) and was later used to distinguish a phonetically borrowed meaning, "to beg".

Semantically unrelated to 氣 (OC *kʰɯds, *qʰɯds) and its variant 餼 (OC *qʰɯds) due to a different meaning ("give food as a gift").

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01998
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02115-005#26
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00041-002#26

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. steam radical (きがまえ (kigamae))

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: き (ki)
• Kun: いき (iki)

• This character exists only as a radical in Japanese. The corresponding character is 気 (“air; atmosphere; spirit”).

气: Hán Việt readings: khí^[1][2]

1. chữ Hán form of khí (“steam radical”).