qì
air
Depicts a gust of air.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.qʰəp-s | khj+jH | qì | (inhaled thing:) breath, air, vapors |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 91.6867% of movies
275th most common character in movies
217th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6C14 |
Shuowen | “气,雲气也。象形。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.58-59
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