愾
kài

anger

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Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 氣 represents the sound.

Components

忄
忄 Meaning component

忄 is a component form of 心.

氣
氣 Sound component
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartxj+jHqʰəp-s sigh; angry

說文解字

《說文》：“愾，大息也。从心，从氣，氣亦聲。《詩》曰：‘愾我寤歎。’”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)