字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE前7.36.2 合12532
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Nature & Elements
气
气 steam, air, ki
きがまえ kigamae
4 strokesRadical of 1 kanjiPart of 2
Your ink in 气0% painted · 0 of 1 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
Clouds flowing through the sky.
Source: Wiktionary, 气 (rev. 92200884), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Take a deep breath! This radical represents the invisible energy of the air and the "ki" that moves within your own body. When you see it wrap around the top of a character, think of weather patterns, human emotions (the spirit), and the gaseous states of matter. It brings a sense of atmosphere, vital energy, and the powerful, invisible forces of nature to its characters.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates the air, gases (steam, vapor), the spirit or energy (ki), emotions, and atmospheric phenomena (weather).
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 气, with sourced origins
- 気spiritキ · いき
气sound + 米
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, 氣, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 气 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 1 kanji