氬

See also: 氩

氬 U+6C2C, 氬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C2C ← 氫 [U+6C2B] CJK Unified Ideographs 氭 → [U+6C2D]

Translingual

Han character

氬 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人弓一中一 (ONMLM), four-corner 8011₇, composition ⿹气亞)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 600, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17069
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2013, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6C2C

Chinese

trad.		氬
simp.		氩

Chemical element
Ar
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Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yà (ya⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aa³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): à / a

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yà
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yà
    • Wade–Giles: ya⁴
    • Yale: yà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yah
    • Palladius: я (ja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: aa³
    • Yale: a
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: a³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aː³³/

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

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: à
    • Tâi-lô: à
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ax
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /a⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /a²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /a¹¹/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: a
    • Tâi-lô: a
    • Phofsit Daibuun: af
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /a⁴⁴/

Definitions

氬

1. argon

Japanese

Kanji

氬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Kan’yō-on: あ (a)

Korean

Hanja

氬 • (a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune–Reischauer a, Yale a)

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