氜

氜

氜 U+6C1C, 氜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C1C ← 氛 [U+6C1B] CJK Unified Ideographs 氝 → [U+6C1D]

Translingual

Han character

氜 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人弓日 (ONA), composition ⿹气日)

References

• KangXi: page 599, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17049
• Dae Jaweon: page 990, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2010, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6C1C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		氜

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 气 (“gas; air”) + 日 (“sun”).

Etymology 1

From 日 (rì, “sun”). Influenced by English helium, which comes from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rì (ri⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rì
    • Zhuyin: ㄖˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rìh
    • Wade–Giles: jih⁴
    • Yale: r̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ryh
    • Palladius: жи (ži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐ̩⁵¹/

Definitions

氜

1. (obsolete) helium

Synonyms

• 氦 (hài)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 氜 – see 陽 (““male” principle; yang in yin-yang; sun; etc.”). (This character, 氜, is a variant form of 陽.)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), N00005