氮
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Translingual edit
Han character edit
氮 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人弓火火 (ONFF), four-corner 80817, composition ⿹气炎)
References edit
- Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 600, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17071
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2013, character 6
- Unihan data for U+6C2E
Chinese edit
trad. | 氮 | |
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simp. # | 氮 | |
alternative forms | 㲷 obsolete |
Chemical element | |
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N | |
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Glyph origin edit
Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声) and ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : semantic 气 (“gas”) + abbreviated phonetic 淡 (dàn, “dilute”).
Etymology edit
From 淡 (dàn, “dilute”) in 淡氣/淡气 [19th c.], referring to nitrogen diluting oxygen in the air.
Pronunciation edit
Definitions edit
氮
Synonyms edit
- (nitrogen): (rare, chiefly Taiwanese Hokkien) 窒素 (zhìsù)
Compounds edit
References edit
- “氮”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Japanese edit
Kanji edit
氮
Readings edit
Usage notes edit
Not used in Japanese. Some sources erroneously give a meaning of xenon, instead of the correct nitrogen.
Korean edit
Hanja edit
氮 • (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune–Reischauer tam, Yale tam)