漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
気: spirit, mind
Also: air, atmosphere, mood
JLPT N56 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
- 气steam(meaning · sound)
- 乂(meaning)
乂 carries the meaning · 气 carries meaning and sound
6 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
キki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 気候きこうclimate
- 気持ちきもちfeeling
- 天気てんきweather
- 人気にんきpopularity
- 病気びょうきillness
- 元気なげんきなenergetic
- 気を付けるきをつけるbe careful
- 気に入るきにいるcome to like, be pleased with
- 気が狂うきがくるうgo mad, go crazy
ケke · on'yomi
- 眠気ねむけsleepiness
- 湿気しっけhumidity
Also read いき, き, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)气 (sound) + 米 rice (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 氣 (rev. 92715933), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Steam (气) + rice (メ/米). Imagine the nutrient-rich "steam" rising from a bowl of hot "rice"—it represents the essential energy or "spirit" that fuels life.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 气 · traditional 氣 · qì
Three different forms: Japanese 気, simplified 气, traditional 氣.
- Simplified
- 气 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 氣 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qì most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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