qì
steam
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 气 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 28.2396% of movies
1159th most common character in movies
1200th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+6C7D |
Shuowen | “汽，水涸也。或曰泣下。从水，气聲。《詩》曰：‘汽可小康。’” |
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