烷

Translingual

Etymology

火 (fire) + 完 (full, complete), derived from early chemistry experiment results which indicated from combustion reactions the full degree of saturation (i.e. complete set of hydrogens) of the alkanes.

Han character

烷 (radical 86 火+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火十一山 (FJMU), four-corner 9381₁, composition ⿰火完)

1. alkane

References

• KangXi: page 671, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19047
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2206, character 1
• Unihan data for U+70F7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

烷 (Jyutping jyun4, Yale yun4)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

烷 (Pinyin wán (wan2), Wade-Giles wan²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

烷 (hoàn)

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