氙

氙

See also: 氠

氙 U+6C19, 氙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C19 ← 氘 [U+6C18] CJK Unified Ideographs 氚 → [U+6C1A]

Translingual

Han character

氙 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人弓山 (ONU), four-corner 8071₇, composition ⿹气山)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 599, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17047
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2010, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6C19

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		氙

Chemical element
Xe
Previous: 碘 (diǎn) (I)
Next: 銫／铯 (sè) (Cs)

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 气 (“gas”) + phonetic 山 (“mountain”). The phonetic component is abbreviated from 仙 (“celestial being”).

Etymology

Borrowed from English xenon.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiān (xian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin¹
• Min Nan (POJ): sian
• Wu (Wiktionary): xi (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sian
    • Wade–Giles: hsien¹
    • Yale: syān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shian
    • Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕjɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sin¹
    • Yale: sīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sian
    • Tâi-lô: sian
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siefn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiɛn³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɕiɛn⁴⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: xi (T1)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵³/

Definitions

氙

1. (chemistry) xenon

Synonyms

• (obsolete) 氠 (shēn), 氥 (xī), 𣱧 (zhòng)

Compounds

三氧化氙 二氟化氙 二氧化氙

二氯化氙 六氟化氙 四氟化氙

四氧化氙 六氟合鉑酸氙／六氟合铂酸氙 氙氣／氙气

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Japanese

Kanji

氙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. xenon

Readings

• Kan’yō-on: せん (sen)

Usage notes

This character is not used in Japanese.

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Korean

Hanja

氙 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune–Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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