氯

See also: 㲶

氯	U+6C2F, 氯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C2F

← 氮
[U+6C2E]

CJK Unified Ideographs

氰 →
[U+6C30]

Translingual

Han character

氯 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人弓弓一水 (ONNME) or 人弓女弓水 (ONVNE), four-corner 8091₇, composition ⿹气彔 or ⿹气录)

References

KangXi: not present, would follow page 600, character 1

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17072

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2013, character 7

Unihan data for U+6C2F

Chinese

trad.		氯
simp. ^#		氯
alternative forms		㲶 obsolete

Chemical element
Cl
Previous: *硫 (liú) (S)*
Next: 氬／氩 (yà) (Ar)

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 气 (“gas”) + phonetic 彔. 彔 is also a reduced form of 綠 (“green”), serving as a semantic component.

Etymology

From 綠氣／绿气 (“green gas”) in the 19th century, which is a calque of English chlorine, referring to the colour of chlorine gas.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lǜ, lù (lü⁴, lu⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˋ, ㄌㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): luk⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): liu̍k
(Meixian, Guangdong): liug⁶
Min Dong (BUC): lṳ̆k
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): lio̍k / lia̍k / le̍k
(Teochew, Peng'im): lêg⁸
Wu (Wiktionary): loq (T5)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lǜ
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lyù
  - Wade–Giles: lü⁴
  - Yale: lyù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liuh
  - Palladius: люй (ljuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ly⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lù
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lù
  - Wade–Giles: lu⁴
  - Yale: lù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luh
  - Palladius: лу (lu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: luk⁶
  - Yale: luhk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: luk⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: lug⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊk̚²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: liu̍k
  - Hakka Romanization System: liug
  - Hagfa Pinyim: liug⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /li̯uk̚⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: liug⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /liʊk̚⁵/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: lṳ̆k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃yʔ⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lio̍k
  - Tâi-lô: lio̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liok
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /liɔk̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɔk̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /liɔk̚⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lia̍k
  - Tâi-lô: lia̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liak
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /liak̚²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: le̍k
  - Tâi-lô: li̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lek
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /liɪk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪk̚¹²¹/

Note:

lio̍k - literary;
lia̍k/le̍k - vernacular.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: lêg⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: le̍k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lek̚⁴/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: loq (T5)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊʔ¹²/

Definitions

氯

(chemistry) chlorine
chlorine gas

Synonyms

(chlorine): (rare) 鹽素／盐素 (yánsù)

Compounds

三氯乙烯 (sānlǜyǐxī)
三氯乙烷
三氯甲烷 (sānlǜjiǎwán)
二氯甲烷 (èrlǜjiǎwán)
加氯量
可氯丹 (kělǜdān)
四氯化碳 (sìlǜhuàtàn)
氯丹 (lǜdān)
氯乙烯 (lǜyǐxī)
氯乙烷 (lǜyǐwán)
氯仿 (lǜfǎng)
氯化 (lǜhuà)
氯化物 (lǜhuàwù)

氯水
氯甲烷 (lǜjiǎwán)
氯胺 (lǜ'àn)
氯胺酮 (lǜ'àntóng)
氯酸 (lǜsuān)
氯醛
高氯酸 (gāolǜsuān)
亞硝醯氯／亚硝醯氯 (yàxiāoxīlǜ)
亞硝醯氯／亚硝醯氯 (yàxiāoxīlǜ)
多氯聯苯／多氯联苯 (duōlǜliánběn)
氯丁橡膠／氯丁橡胶
氯化氫／氯化氢 (lǜhuàqīng)
氯化鈉／氯化钠 (lǜhuànà)

氯化鈣／氯化钙 (lǜhuàgài)
氯化鉀／氯化钾 (lǜhuàjiǎ)
氯化銀／氯化银 (lǜhuàyín)
氯化銨／氯化铵 (lǜhuà'ǎn)
氯化鋅／氯化锌 (lǜhuàxīn)
氯化鎂／氯化镁 (lǜhuàměi)
氯氣／氯气 (lǜqì)
氯氣中毒／氯气中毒
氯絲菌素／氯丝菌素
氯綸／氯纶
氯黴素／氯霉素 (lǜméisù)
過氯酸／过氯酸 (guòlǜsuān)
雙氯芬酸／双氯芬酸 (shuānglǜfēnsuān)

References

“氯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Korean

Hanja

氯 (eum 록 (rok))

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Vietnamese

Han character

氯: Hán Nôm readings: lục

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