The kanji 気: meaning, readings and stroke order
気
- Meaning
- air, feeling
- On reading
- キ ki、ケ ke
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 气 steam, breath
- Level
- Level 1 · grade 1
- Old form
- 氣
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- không khí, tâm trạng (khí)
- Japanese
- くうき。きもち。
- Korean
- 공기, 기분 (기)
- Chinese
- 空气、心情 (气)
Readings, words and example sentences
キ ki · on reading
天気
weather
きょうは いい 天気です。
The weather is nice today.
ケ ke · on reading
気配
feeling that someone is there
外に 人の 気配が します。
I feel like someone is outside.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.