氟

氟 U+6C1F, 氟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C1F ← 氞 [U+6C1E] CJK Unified Ideographs 氠 → [U+6C20]

Translingual

Han character

氟 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人弓中中弓 (ONLLN), four-corner 8051₀, composition ⿹气弗)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 599, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17058
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2011, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6C1F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		氟

Chemical element
F
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Next: 氖 (nǎi) (Ne)

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 气 (“gas”) + phonetic 弗.

Etymology

From earlier 弗氣／弗气, 弗素, which is probably an orthographic borrowing from Japanese 弗素, where 弗(ふつ) (futsu) was used phonetically.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú (fu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fat¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hu̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fú
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fat¹
    • Yale: fāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: fed¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐt̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hu̍t
    • Tâi-lô: hu̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hut
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hut̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hut̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hut̚¹²¹/

Definitions

氟

1. (chemistry) fluorine

Compounds

• 四氟化碳 (sìfúhuàtàn)
• 氟利昂 (fúlì'áng)
• 氟化物 (fúhuàwù)
• 氟氣／氟气 (fúqì)
• 氯氟烴／氯氟烃 (lǜfútīng)
• 特氟龍／特氟龙 (tèfúlóng)
• 聚四氟乙烯 (jùsìfúyǐxī)
• 鐵氟龍／铁氟龙 (tiěfúlóng)

 

Japanese

Kanji

氟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. fluorine

Readings

• Kan’yō-on: ふつ (futsu)

Usage notes

Extremely rare. When written in kanji, more commonly spelled using the character 弗. The full Japanese term for fluorine is 弗素, much more commonly written in Japanese in katakana, as フッ素.

Korean

Hanja

氟 • (bul) (hangeul 불, revised bul, McCune–Reischauer pul, Yale pul)

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