U+7845, 硅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7845

[U+7844]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7846]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 112, +6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一口土土 (MRGG), four-corner 14614, composition )

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 829, character 40
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24151
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1245, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2427, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7845

Further reading edit

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.
 
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Glyph origin 1 edit

Chemical element
Si
Previous: () (Al)
Next: (lín) (P)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声) : semantic (stone) + phonetic (guī).

Etymology edit

An orthographic borrowing from Japanese (けい)() (keiso) (Wu, 2010); pronunciation from its phonetic part (guī) (ibid.), in turn from Dutch keiaarde (silicon). The usage of () is dated in Mainland China as it is homophonous to () "selenium" and () "tin". In Taiwan, these three words are not homophonous.

1933 work 化學命名原則 says:

Silicon珪素孳演固體可取不如諧聲 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
Silicon珪素孳演固体可取不如谐声 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: 1933, 國立編譯館, 化學命名原則
Silicon jiù yì yī zuò guī, yī zuò xī, guī yóu rì míng guīsù zīyǎn ér chéng, yīn wèi gùtǐ, gù gǎi wáng páng wèi shí; yú yì jì wú kěqǔ, bùrú yòng xiéshēng zhī xī. [Pinyin]
(please add an English translation of this usage example)

Pronunciation edit


Definitions edit

  1. (Mainland China, chemistry) silicon
    Synonym: () (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau)

Compounds edit

Glyph origin 2 edit

Definitions edit

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“sound of a thing flying quickly by; whoosh; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings edit

As variant kanji of : (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?)

As variant kanji of : (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?)

From native Japanese roots:

Compounds edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(eum (gyu))

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: khuê
: Nôm readings: cuội[1]

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