氨

氨 U+6C28, 氨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C28 ← 氧 [U+6C27] CJK Unified Ideographs 氩 → [U+6C29]

Translingual

Han character

氨 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人弓十女 (ONJV), four-corner 8042₇, composition ⿹气安)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 599, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17065
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2012, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6C28

Chinese

trad.		氨
simp. #		氨

Glyph origin

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English ammonia. Related to 銨／铵 (ǎn, “ammonium”) and 胺 (àn, “amine”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ān (an¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): on¹, ngon¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): an

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ān
    • Zhuyin: ㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: an
    • Wade–Giles: an¹
    • Yale: ān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: an
    • Palladius: ань (anʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: on¹, ngon¹
    • Yale: ōn, ngōn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: on¹, ngon¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: on¹, ngon¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔːn⁵⁵/, /ŋɔːn⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: an
    • Tâi-lô: an
    • Phofsit Daibuun: afn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /an⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /an³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /an⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /an⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /an⁴⁴/

Definitions

氨

1. (inorganic chemistry) ammonia

Synonyms

• 阿摩尼亞／阿摩尼亚 (āmóníyà)

Compounds

• 氨化作用
• 氨基 (ānjī)
• 氨氣／氨气 (ānqì)
• 氨水 (ānshuǐ)
• 液氨 (yè'ān)

 

Japanese

Kanji

氨

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Synonym of アンモニア (anmonia, “ammonia”)

Readings

• Kan’yō-on: あん (an)

Vietnamese

Han character

氨: Hán Nôm readings: an

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