气冷式反应堆 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

qì, qi air Simplified

Depicts a gust of air.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

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Component uses

Meaning (4 of 23 verified)

汽氧氛氢氯氨氮氖氟氦氲氰氤氩氚氪氘氡氙氕氳氜氫 show all 23 show fewer

Sound (4)

汽忾饩氣

Iconic (1)

氣

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khj+jH	C.qʰəp-s	(inhaled thing:) breath, air, vapors

說文解字

《說文》：“气，雲气也。象形。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.58-59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)

lěng cold

Phonosemantic compound. 冫 represents the meaning and 令 represents the sound.

Components

冫 Meaning component

bīng ice

冫 is a component form of 冰.

令 Sound component

lìng command

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		raːŋʔ
		reːŋ
		reːŋʔ
Unicode	læ̌ng
	læ̌ng

說文解字

《說文》：“冷，寒也。从仌。令聲。”

Sources

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

shì, shi style

Phonosemantic compound. 工 represents the meaning and 弋 represents the sound.

Components

工 Meaning component

gōng work

弋 Sound component

yì to shoot

Change in sound

式 and 弋 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
式 *l̥ək
弋 *lək

Character Evolution

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Sound (2 of 7 verified)

试轼拭弑試弒軾

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	syik	l̥ək	pattern
	syik	l̥ək	to wipe

說文解字

《說文》：“式，法也。从工，弋聲。”

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)

fǎn reverse

Original meaning: climb

Pictograph of a hand (又) climbing a cliff (厂). Based on original meaning "climb", now written as 扳. The meaning later shifted to "pull" and "reverse".

Components

厂 Iconic component

chǎng cliff, (roof)

又 Iconic component

yòu hand

Depicts a hand.

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Sound (4 of 13 verified)

版板饭返贩扳阪坂畈舨钣飯販

Meaning (0 of 2 verified)

返叛

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	baenX	[b]ˤranʔ	dignified, grand
	pjonX	Cə.panʔ	reverse (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“反，覆也。从又、厂。反形。，古文。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.206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)

yīng, yìng, ying should Simplified

Simplified form of 應. Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 䧹 represents the sound.

Components

心 Meaning Simplified component

xīn, xin heart

䧹 Sound Simplified component

yīng eagle

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

duī heap, pile

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 隹 represents the sound.

Components

土 Meaning component

tǔ earth

隹 Sound component

zhuī, cuī, wéi bird

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	twoj	C.tˤuj	heap; mound

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica

qì, qi air Traditional

Original meaning: gift of grain

Phonosemantic compound. 米 represents the meaning and 气 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "gift of grain", now written as 餼. The current meaning "air" is a phonetic loan.