气

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/气

Glyph origin

 * clouds flowing through the sky – original form of both and.

In the oracle bone script, it was represented by three horizontal strokes, expressing the "feeling" of the sky. However, in order to avoid confusion with the number, was changed to draw a small stroke from top to bottom.

Kanji

 * 1) steam radical

Usage notes

 * This character exists only as a radical in Japanese. The corresponding character is.