U+6C17 "気" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

気

U+6C17 "気" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a key character in the East Asian writing systems, functioning as a simplified and also Japanese variant of the character that in traditional Chinese is written as 氣 and in Korean as 기 (gi). It fundamentally represents the concept of "spirit," "energy," "air," or "vital force," most famously associated with the philosophical and medical term "qi" (or "ki" in Japanese). This ideograph is composed of a radical meaning "steam" or "vapor" and a phonetic component, and it is used in a wide range of vocabulary from everyday words like "weather" (天気, tenki) and "atmosphere" (空気, kūki) to concepts of temperament (気持ち, kimochi) and attention (気をつける, ki o tsukeru). Its cultural significance is profound, reflecting a core principle in East Asian thought regarding the flow of life energy through all living things.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6C17
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	気
HTML Hex Encoding	気
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xB0 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6C17
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006C17
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6c17

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCangjie	ONK
kCantonese	hei3
kDaeJaweon	0990.170
kDefinition	air, gas, steam, vapor; spirit
kEACC	4B4655
kFourCornerCode	8041.7
kHanYu	32010.031
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0990.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32010.031
kIRGKangXi	0599.041
kIRG_GSource	GE-3E75
kIRG_JSource	J0-3524
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5060
kIRG_KSource	K2-3F43
kJapanese	キケき
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	IKI
kJapaneseOn	KI KE
kJis0	2104
kKangXi	0599.041
kKorean	KI
kMandarin	qì
kMojiJoho	MJ015013
kMorohashi	17046'
kNelson	2480 2481
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1598+84.4.2
kRSUnicode	84.2
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	J