氕

氕

氕 U+6C15, 氕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C15 ← 气 [U+6C14] CJK Unified Ideographs 氖 → [U+6C16]

Translingual

Han character

氕 (radical 84, 气+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人弓中 (ONL), four-corner 8021₇, composition ⿹气丿)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 599, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2010, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6C15

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		氕

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 气 (“gas”) + 丿 (“one”). Also a phono-semantic compound (形聲) , where 丿 (piě) acts as the phonetic component. Compare 氘 (“deuterium”) and 氚 (“tritium”).

Etymology

From 丿 (piě, “left falling stroke”) from the glyph, possibly influenced by New Latin protium. In Mandarin, it is pronounced in the first tone by analogy with 氘 (dāo, “deuterium”) and 氚 (chuān, “tritium”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): piē (pie¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pit³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: piē
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄝ
    • Wade–Giles: p'ieh¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pie
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pit³
    • Yale: pit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: pid³
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰiːt̚³/

Definitions

氕

1. protium

See also

• 氘 (dāo, “deuterium”)
• 氚 (chuān, “tritium”)
• 氫／氢 (qīng, “hydrogen”)