Dong Chinese dictionary

kài

anger

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 氣 represents the sound.

Components

忄 Meaning component

xin, xīn

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

氣 Sound component

qì

air

愾 and 氣 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.愾 /*qʰəp-s/
氣 /*C.qʰəp-s/, /*qʰət-s/

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

忾 (愾)

kài

anger, wrath, hatred, enmity; anger

Most common words with 愾

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	忾	anger
	同仇敌忾	anger against a common enemy (idiom); joined in opposition to the same adversary

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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