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Modern (Beijing) reading: qì
Preclassic Old Chinese: khǝjs (~ -ts)
Classic Old Chinese: khǝjh
Western Han Chinese: khǝjh
Eastern Han Chinese: khǝś
Early Postclassic Chinese: khɨś
Middle Postclassic Chinese: khɨ̀j
Late Postclassic Chinese: khɨ̀j
Middle Chinese: khɨ̀j
English meaning : vapour, odour, steam, gas
Russian meaning[s]: 1) воздух, атмосфера; газ; пар; воздушный, духовой; пневматический; надувной; 2) дыхание; дух; эфир; жизненная сила; 3) настроение; темперамент, характер; нрав; 4) гнев; злость; разозлить(ся); 5) внешний облик; манеры; вкусы; интересы; 6) запах; нюхать; 7) судьба, рок; 8) сезон; погода; 9) компания; группа единомышленников; 10) подносить пищу, см.
Comments: Attested already in Yijing, but absent in Schüssler's dictionary.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 84
Four-angle index: 7637
Karlgren code: 0517 c
Vietnamese reading: khí
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: [*Kǝj]
Chinese: 氣 *khǝjs ( ~ -ts) vapour, odour, steam, gas
Comments: Cf. Kabui Naga *tǝŋ-KVi 'wind'. Cf. Austric *huj / *ho(:)j 'smoke'?
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Number: 977
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 止開三去未溪
ZIHUI: 3049 0684
Beijing: ćhi 3
Jinan: ćhi 3
Xi'an: ćhi 3
Taiyuan: ćhi 3
Hankou: ćhi 3
Chengdu: ćhi 3
Yangzhou: ćhi 3
Suzhou: ćhi 31
Wenzhou: chi_ 31
Changsha: ćhi 31
Shuangfeng: ćhi 31
Nanchang: ćhi 2
Meixian: khi 3
Guangzhou: hei 31
Xiamen: khi 31 (lit.); khui 31
Chaozhou: khi 31
Fuzhou: khei 31
Shanghai: ćhi 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: khi 3
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