炔

See also: 耿

Translingual

Etymology

火 (fire) + 夬, the latter being derived from 缺 (lack) of which it is the phonetic element. This is coined in light of the observed lack of two of the hydrogens in alkenes and the fact that alkynes are flammable.

Han character

炔 (radical 86 火+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 火木大 (FDK), X火木大 (XFDK), four-corner 9583₀)

1. alkyne

References

• KangXi: page 667, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18917
• Dae Jaweon: page 1076, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2194, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7094

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Cantonese

Hanzi

炔 (Jyutping kyut3, Yale kyut3)

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Japanese

Kanji

炔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: けい (kei), け (ke), けつ (ketsu), けち (kechi)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

炔 (Pinyin quē (que1), guì (gui4), Wade-Giles ch'üeh¹, kuei⁴)

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Compounds

• 炔烃