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口气

kǒu qì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 口氣

口气 (kǒu qì) means "tone of voice; the way one speaks; manner of expression". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 口气 means

1. tone of voice
2. the way one speaks
3. manner of expression
4. tone

The characters in 口气

• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
• 气qìgas; air; smell; weather

Example sentences

• 她松了一口气。
  She gave out a sigh of relief.
• 请深吸一口气。
  Please take a deep breath.
• 吸一口气，妈的！
  Breathe, damn you!
• 汤姆大声叹了口气。
  Tom let out a big sigh.
• 我一口气喝完了茶。
  I drank the tea all at once.
• 我听到消息松了一口气。
  Wǒ tīngdào xiāoxi sōng le yīkǒuqì.
  I sighed with relief to hear it.

Words containing 口气

• 一口气yī kǒu qìone breath; in one breath; at a stretch
• 出口气chū kǒu qìto take one's revenge; to score off sb
• 探口气tàn kǒu qìto sound out opinions; to get sb's views by polite or indirect questioning…
• 叹口气tàn kǒu qìto sigh
• 舒一口气shū yī kǒu qìto heave a sigh of relief
• 松一口气sōng yī kǒu qìto heave a sigh of relief
• 倒抽一口气dào chōu yī kǒu qìto gasp (in surprise, dismay, fright etc)
• 不蒸馒头争口气bù zhēng mán tou zhēng kǒu qìnot to be crushed (idiom); to be determined to have one's revenge
• 一口气儿yī kǒu qì rerhua variant of 一口气

Sounds the same

Read kǒu qì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 口器mouthparts (of an arthropod)

Where 口气 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · kǒng–kǒu (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kǒu qì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.