Character Details
| steam; vapour | Ascii: — | w522 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 汽 | qì | tchee | 4 | 氵 (water) + 气 (steam) → steam | 汽 link | ||||||
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Water vapor is like the air (or gas in this case) form of water but a bit thicker. | ||||||||||
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| - There's a bus stop nearby. | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 85 - 氏 | shì | water | clan | clan mark | 氏 民 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 氵 (water) + 气 (steam) → steam | 水 (semantic) | 气 (phonetic) | phonetic from 气 | ||||||||