气
gas; air; smell; weather; to make angry; to annoy; to get angry; vital energy; qi
4 strokes
Dict coverage rank #42 U+6C14
How 气 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A person 亻 breathing air
components: 亻
? unknown part
How to remember it
air · Heisig RSH #1404
reclining + floor + fishhook
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 气 as their sound component
These characters all use 气 (qì) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 气 sound component | qì | air, gas; steam, vapor; anger |
| 饩 | xì | sacrficial victim; gift; grain |
Words containing 气
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大气儿 | dà qì r | erhua variant of 大氣|大气[da4 qi4] |
| 人气 | rén qì | popularity; presence of people; liveliness |
| 大气 | dà qì | atmosphere (surrounding the earth); imposing; impressive; stylish |
| 气人 | qì rén | to anger; to annoy |
| 小家子气 | xiǎo jiā zi qì | petty; small-minded |
| 一气 | yī qì | at one go; at a stretch; for a period of time; forming a gang |
| 水气 | shuǐ qì | water vapor; steam |
| 心气 | xīn qì | intention; motive; state of mind; ambition; aspiration; heart 氣|气[qi4] (TCM) |
| 生气 | shēng qì | to get angry; to be furious; vitality; liveliness |
| 气不公 | qì bù gōng | indignant |
| 气头上 | qì tóu shang | (in) a fit of anger; (in) a foul mood |
| 天气 | tiān qì | weather |
| 一口气儿 | yī kǒu qì r | erhua variant of 一口氣|一口气[yi1 kou3 qi4] |
| 小气 | xiǎo qì | stingy; miserly; narrow-minded; petty |
| 气不平 | qì bù píng | angry at unfairness |
| 动气 | dòng qì | to get angry |
| 气动 | qì dòng | pneumatic |
| 一口气 | yī kǒu qì | one breath; in one breath; at a stretch |
| 有气无力 | yǒu qì wú lì | weakly and without strength (idiom); dispirited |
| 气化 | qì huà | to vaporize; evaporation; carburetion; 氣|气[qi4] transformation in TCM (i.e. transformation… |