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汽
汽
Translingual
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 汽
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| Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (气) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 愾 | *kʰɯːds, *qʰɯds |
| 忾 | *qʰrɯl |
| 刏 | *kɯl, *ɡɯl, *kuːls |
| 汽 | *kʰɯds |
| 氣 | *kʰɯds, *qʰɯds |
| 气 | *kʰɯds |
| 忥 | *qʰɯds |
| 餼 | *qʰɯds |
| 鎎 | *qʰɯds |
| 熂 | *qʰɯds |
| 霼 | *qʰɯds |
| 犔 | *qʰɯds |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰɯds) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 气 (OC *kʰɯds).
Han character
汽 (radical 85 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水人一弓 (EOMN), four-corner 38117, composition ⿰氵气)
References
- KangXi: page 609, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17177
- Dae Jaweon: page 1002, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1566, character 4
- Unihan data for U+6C7D
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
汽 | |
|---|---|---|
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˋ
- Wade-Giles: ch'ih4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chih
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: hei3
- Yale: hei
- Cantonese Pinyin: hei3
- IPA (key): /hei̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khì
- Tâi-lô: khì
- Phofsit Daibuun: qix
- IPA (Xiamen): /kʰi²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰi⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰi²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /kʰi¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi²¹/
- (Hokkien)
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 汽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 10139 |
| Phonetic component |
气 |
| Rime group |
隊 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
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| Old Chinese |
/*kʰɯds/ |
Definitions
汽
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Derived terms
References
- “Query for 汽”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Japanese
Kanji
汽
Readings
Korean
Hanja
汽 • (gi, heul) (hangeul 기, 흘, revised gi, heul, McCune-Reischauer ki, hŭl, Yale ki, hul)
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Vietnamese
Han character
汽 (khí)
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