U+6C23 "氣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

氣

U+6C23 "氣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily signifies "air," "gas," "breath," or "vital energy," and it is central to concepts in Chinese philosophy, medicine, and martial arts, where it represents the life force or cosmic energy that flows through all living things. This ideograph is composed of the radical "气" (air or steam) combined with "米" (rice), alluding to the nourishing vapor that rises from cooking food, and its alternate simplified form "气" is used in modern Chinese, though "氣" remains prevalent in traditional texts and Japanese Kanji. As a core element of Daoist and Confucian thought, the term "qi" (pronounced "chee") influences practices like feng shui, acupuncture, and Tai Chi, embodying the dynamic, invisible force that sustains balance and harmony in the universe.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6C23
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	氣
HTML Hex Encoding	氣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xB0 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6C23
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006C23
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6c23

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

kBigFive	AEF0
kCCCII	214655
kCNS1986	1-5634
kCNS1992	1-5634
kCangjie	ONFD
kCantonese	hei3
kCihaiT	751.504
kCowles	1033
kDaeJaweon	0990.260
kDefinition	air, gas, steam, vapor; spirit
kEACC	214655
kFanqie	去旣許旣
kFenn	298A
kFennIndex	40.08
kFourCornerCode	8091.7
kGB1	3888
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	0517c
kHangul	기:0E
kHanYu	32011.140
kHanyuPinlu	qì(2634) qi(348)
kHanyuPinyin	32011.140:xì,qì
kHKGlyph	2099
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0990.260
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32011.140
kIRGKangXi	0599.120
kIRG_GSource	G1-4678
kIRG_HSource	HB1-AEF0
kIRG_JSource	J0-5D66
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D2D2
kIRG_KSource	K0-5128
kIRG_TSource	T1-5634
kIRG_VSource	V1-5B59
kJapanese	キケ
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+6C17
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	IKI
kJapaneseOn	KI KE
kJis0	6170
kKangXi	0599.120
kKarlgren	333
kKorean	KI
kLau	1157
kMandarin	qì
kMatthews	554
kMeyerWempe	698
kMojiJoho	MJ015020
kMorohashi	17059
kNelson	2481
kPhonetic	461
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+5381+84.4.6 C+5381+119.6.4
kRSUnicode	84.6
kSBGY	361.15 361.24
kSemanticVariant	U+7081<kLau,kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"气" U+6C14 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	352.13 510.10
kSMSZD2003Readings	qì粵hei3
kTaiwanTelegraph	3051
kTang	*kiə̀i
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	khí
kXerox	241:346
kXHC1983	0903.021:qì