喘氣

See also: 喘气

Chinese

		to gasp; to pant; asthma	gas; air; smell gas; air; smell; weather; vital breath; to make someone angry; to get angry; to be enraged
trad. (喘氣)		喘	氣
simp. (喘气)		喘	气
alternative forms		喘喟 (Min Nan)
anagram		氣喘／气喘

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuǎnqì

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄢˇ ㄑㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun² hei³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhón-hi
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhoán-khùi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cuêng² kui³ / cuang² kui³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chuǎnqì
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄢˇ ㄑㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chuǎncì
    • Wade–Giles: chʻuan³-chʻi⁴
    • Yale: chwǎn-chì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: choanchih
    • Palladius: чуаньци (čuanʹci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chuǎnqìr
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄢˇ ㄑㄧˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chuǎncìr
    • Wade–Giles: chʻuan³-chʻi⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: chwǎn-chìr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: choanchiell
    • Palladius: чуаньцир (čuanʹcir)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰiə̯ɻ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun² hei³
    • Yale: chyún hei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn² hei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun² héi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn³⁵ hei̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhón-hi
    • Hakka Romanization System: con^ˋ hi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: con³ hi⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰon³¹ hi⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoán-khùi
    • Tâi-lô: tshuán-khuì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhoafnquix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰuan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰui²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰuan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kʰui⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰuan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰui²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰuan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰui¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰuan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kʰui²¹/

Note:

• “to take a breather; to breathe; to sigh”.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: cuêng² kui³ / cuang² kui³
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshuéng khùi / tshuáng khùi
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰueŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ kʰui²¹³/, /t͡sʰuaŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ kʰui²¹³/

Verb

喘氣

1. to pant; to gasp; to breathe heavily

   我出點力氣就覺得喘氣費勁。 [MSC, trad.]
   我出点力气就觉得喘气费劲。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ chū diǎn lìqi jiù juéde chuǎnqì fèijìn. [Pinyin]

   I feel breathless with the slightest effort.

2. to take a breather; to catch one's breath
3. (Hokkien) to breathe
4. (Mainland China Hokkien) to sigh; to heave a sigh

Synonyms

• (to take a breather):

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• 休息
• 休憩 (xiūqì) (literary)
• 停歇 (tíngxiē)
• 停睏 / 停困 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 安息 (ānxī)
• 憩息 (qìxī) (literary)
• 放尞 (Taiwanese Hakka)
• 敨 (tau²) (Cantonese, Hakka)
• 歇 (xiē)
• 歇喘 (Hokkien, to take a breather)
• 歇息 (xiēxi)
• 歇氣 / 歇气 (xiēqì) (to take a breather)
• 歇𤺪 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 歇睏 / 歇困 (Hakka, Hokkien)

• (to breathe):

Dialectal synonyms of 呼吸 (“to breathe”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		呼吸
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	呼吸
	Singapore	呼吸
Cantonese	Guangzhou	敨氣
	Hong Kong	敨氣
	Taishan	敨氣
	Singapore (Guangfu)	敨氣
Hakka	Meixian	敨氣
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	敨氣
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	敨氣
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	敨氣
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	敨氣
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	敨氣
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	敨氣
Northern Min	Jian'ou	取氣
Southern Min	Xiamen	喘氣
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	喘氣
	Quanzhou	喘氣
	Zhangzhou	喘氣
	Tainan	喘氣
	Penang (Hokkien)	喘氣
	Singapore (Hokkien)	喘氣
	Manila (Hokkien)	喘氣, 呼吸
	Jieyang	敨氣
	Singapore (Teochew)	喘氣

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• 吸氣 / 吸气 (xīqì, “to inhale”)
• 呼吸 (hūxī)
• 呼氣 / 呼气 (hūqì, “to exhale”)
• 嗍氣 / 嗍气 (“to inhale”) (Taishanese)
• 透氣 / 透气 (tòuqì, “to breathe in fresh air”)

• (to sigh):

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• 吐氣 / 吐气 (Hokkien)
• 呻氣 / 呻气 (san³ hi³) (Southern Pinghua)
• 咨嗟 (zījiē) (literary)
• 嘆 / 叹 (tàn) (literary, or in compounds)
• 嘆息 / 叹息 (tànxī)
• 嘆氣 / 叹气 (tànqì)
• 太息 (tàixī) (literary)
• 打咳聲 / 打咳声 (Harbin)

References

• “Entry #8236”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.