氪

氪 U+6C2A, 氪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C2A ← 氩 [U+6C29] CJK Unified Ideographs 氫 → [U+6C2B]

Translingual

Han character

氪 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人弓十口山 (ONJRU), four-corner 8021₇, composition ⿹气克)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 600, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17067
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2012, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6C2A

Chinese

trad.		氪
simp. #		氪

Chemical element
Kr
Previous: 溴 (xiù) (Br)
Next: 銣／铷 (rú) (Rb)

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 气 (“air; gas”) + phonetic 克 (kè).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kè (ke⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hak¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khek / khiak
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁷kheq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kè
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kè
    • Wade–Giles: kʻo⁴
    • Yale: kè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: keh
    • Palladius: кэ (kɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hak¹
    • Yale: hāk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: heg¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khek
    • Tâi-lô: khik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qeg
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khiak
    • Tâi-lô: khiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qiag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰiak̚⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁷kheq
    • MiniDict: kheh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴kheq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kʰəʔ⁵⁵/

Definitions

氪

1. krypton
2. (video games, informal) Short for 氪金 (kèjīn, “to pay a premium in a freemium game”).

Compounds

• 氪金 (kèjīn)

 

Korean

Hanja

氪 • (geuk) (hangeul 극, revised geuk, McCune–Reischauer kŭk, Yale kuk)

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Zhuang

Verb

氪

1. Sawndip form of gaek (“to become angry; to get upset”)