銨

See also: 铵

銨 U+92A8, 銨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-92A8 ← 銧 [U+92A7] CJK Unified Ideographs 銩 → [U+92A9]

Translingual

Han character

銨 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 金十女 (CJV), four-corner 8314₄, composition ⿰釒安)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1305, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40407
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4202, character 15
• Unihan data for U+92A8

Chinese

trad.		銨
simp.		铵

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ǎn, ān

  (Zhuyin): ㄢˇ, ㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngon¹ / on¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ǎn
    • Wade–Giles: an³
    • Yale: ǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: aan
    • Palladius: ань (anʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • 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: ngon¹ / on¹
    • Yale: ngōn / ōn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngon¹ / on¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngon¹ / on¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɔːn⁵⁵/, /ɔːn⁵⁵/

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English ammonium. Related to 氨 (ān, “ammonia”) and 胺 (àn, “amine”).

Definitions

銨

1. (chemistry) ammonium

Synonyms

• 銨根／铵根 (ǎngēn)
• (obsolete) 錏／铔 (yā)

Compounds

• 氯化銨／氯化铵 (lǜhuà'ǎn)
• 硫酸銨／硫酸铵 (liúsuān'ǎn)
• 硝酸銨／硝酸铵 (xiāosuān'ǎn)
• 碳酸氫銨／碳酸氢铵 (tànsuānqīng'ǎn)
• 碳酸銨／碳酸铵 (tànsuān'ǎn)
• 苯甲地那銨／苯甲地那铵 (běnjiǎdìnà'ǎn)
• 銨鹽／铵盐 (ǎnyán)

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English antimony.

Definitions

銨

1. (chemistry, obsolete) antimony

   Synonym: 銻／锑

References

• “銨”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B05323

Japanese

Kanji

銨

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. Synonym of アンモニウム (anmoniumu, “ammonium”)

Readings

• Kan’yō-on: あん (an)