氥

氥 U+6C25, 氥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C25 ← 氤 [U+6C24] CJK Unified Ideographs 氦 → [U+6C26]

Translingual

Han character

氥 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人弓一金田 (ONMCW), four-corner 8061₇, composition ⿹气西)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 599, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17062
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2011, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6C25

Chinese

simp. and trad.		氥

Glyph origin

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English xenon. Obsoleted, as it is homophonous to 硒 (xī, “selenium”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sai¹
    • Yale: sāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

氥

1. (chemistry, obsolete) xenon

Synonyms

• 氙 (xiān)
• 氠 (shēn) (obsolete)
• 𣱧 (zhòng) (obsolete)