汽 — steam, vapor

き汽 steam

き

U+6C7D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2020 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1895 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

steam
vapor

Readings

On'yomi: き ki

word

き ki On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

汽(き) 車(しゃ) kisha steam train 汽(き) 船(せん) kisen steamship 汽(き) 笛(てき) kiteki steam whistle

Words by frequency and grade

3 words

Each dot is a word containing 汽: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 2 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

气 steam

Phono-semantic compound (形声). 氵 (water) provides the semantic field. 気 gives both the phonetic ki and the concept of air/gas. Steam — water transformed into vapor.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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