HSK 3.0 Level 4 · Body

气 qì “air” in Chinese

Traditional 氣

What 气 means

  1. air
  2. anger
  3. to be angry
  4. gas
  5. smell
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • weather
  • to make angry
  • to annoy
  • to get angry
  • vital energy
  • qi

How to say 气

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale气qì4th tone, falling

气 in a sentence

  1. 我还是很气。

    Wǒ háishi hěn qì.

    I’m still angry.

    Sentence #9972435 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 北京今天空气很好。

    Běijīng jīntiān kōngqì hěn hǎo.

    The air in Beijing is very good today.

    Sentence #4704316 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他对他儿子很生气。

    Tā duì tā érzi hěn shēngqì.

    He was angry with his son.

    Sentence #1516187 from Tatoeba

How 气 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 气 (qì) drawn as one shape
气qìgas; air

气 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidDrawn from layers of vapour rising: air, steam, breath.

How to write 气

气 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

气 (qì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 气 (qì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 气

Words with 气

天气tiānqì · weather不客气bú kèqi · you’re welcome生气shēngqì · angry力气lìqi · strength空气kōngqì · air气候qìhòu · climate脾气píqi · temper淘气táoqì · naughty小气xiǎoqì · stingy气氛qìfēn · atmosphere

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FAQs

气 (qì) means “air” or “anger”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it qì: qì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 气 is written 氣. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 气 from the suggestions. Typing qi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
气 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.