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水銀
Etymology 1
From Sinitic 水銀, literally “water (i.e. liquid) silver”.
Pronunciation
Noun
水銀 (hiragana すいぎん, romaji suigin)
- (chemical element) mercury, Hg, quicksilver
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 水銀汚染 (すいぎんおせん, suigin osen): mercury pollution, mercury contamination
- 水銀温度計 (すいぎんおんどけい, suigin ondokei): a mercury thermometer
- 水銀気圧計 (水銀気圧計, suigin kiatsukei): a mercury barometer
- 水銀拡散ポンプ (すいぎんかくせんぽんぷ, suigin kakusan ponpu): a mercury diffusion pump
- 水銀寒暖計 (すいぎんかんだんけい, suigin kandankei): a mercury thermometer
- 水銀孤灯 (すいぎんことう, suigin kotō): a mercury arc lamp
- 水銀硬膏 (すいぎんこうこう, suigin kōkō): a hard mercury-based ointment or plaster
- 水銀剤 (すいぎんざい, suiginzai): a mercurial (drug), a mercury-based fungicide
- 水銀整流器 (すいぎんせいりゅうき, suigin seiryūki): (electronics) a mercury-arc valve
- 水銀晴雨計 (すいぎんせいうけい, suigin seiukei): a mercury barometer
- 水銀中毒 (すいぎんちゅうどく, suigin chūdoku): mercury poisoning
- 水銀柱 (すいぎんちゅう, suiginchū): mercury in a thermometer, as a metaphor for the temperature
- 水銀電池 (すいぎんでんち, suigin denchi): a mercury battery
- 水銀灯 (すいぎんとう, suigin tō): a mercury lamp, a mercury-vapor lamp
- 水銀軟膏 (すいぎんなんこう, suigin nankō): a soft mercury-based ointment or plaster
- 水銀農薬 (すいぎんのうやく, suigin nōyaku): a mercury-based agrichemical
- 水銀粉 (はらや, haraya): a kind of white face powder made from mercury, used in ancient times
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Etymology 2
From Old Japanese. Compound of 水 (mizu, “water”) + 銀 (kane, “metal, silver”). The kane changes to gane due to rendaku (連濁). Appears in the Wamyō Ruijushō Japanese dictionary of 938 CE as mizukane, suggesting that the shift to rendaku is more recent.
Obsolete in modern Japanese.
Pronunciation
Noun
水銀 (hiragana みずがね, romaji mizugane, historical hiragana みづがね)
- (chemical element, obsolete) mercury, Hg, quicksilver
Usage notes
The mizugane reading is largely obsolete in modern Japanese; suigin is the standard reading.
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