亜鉛

Japanese

Chemical element
Zn
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Kanji in this term
亜	鉛
あ Grade: S	えん Grade: S
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
亞鉛 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

First appears in Japanese in the 1713 edition of the 和漢三才図会 (Wakan Sansai Zue, “Illustrated Sino-Japanese Encyclopedia”). Appears to be a Japanese coinage as 亜 (a, “next, sub-”) + 鉛 (en, “lead”, the metal), probably from the way that zinc is often found together with lead in ores. Probably influenced by early (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Min Nan 倭鉛／倭铅 (e-iân), early (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin 倭鉛／倭铅 (wōqiān, literally “Japanese lead” → “zinc”).

Noun

1. zinc, Zn

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 亜鉛華(あえんか) (aenka): zinc white, zinc oxide
• 亜鉛鉄(あえんてつ) (aen tetsu): galvanized iron
• 亜鉛板(あえんばん) (aenban): zinc plate
• 亜鉛版(あえんばん) (aenban): zinc etching
• 亜鉛末(あえんまつ) (aen matsu): zinc dust
• 亜鉛引(あえんび)き (aenbiki): zinc coated
• 亜鉛合金(あえんごうきん) (aen gōkin): zinc alloy
• 亜鉛中毒(あえんちゅうどく) (aen chūdoku): zinc poisoning

• 亜鉛鉄板(あえんてっぱん) (aen teppan): galvanized sheet iron
• 亜鉛凸版(あえんとっぱん) (aen toppan): photoengraving
• 亜鉛華軟膏(あえんかなんこう) (aen kanankō): zinc oxide ointment
• 塩化亜鉛(えんかあえん) (enka aen): zinc chloride
• 酵母亜鉛(こうばあえん) (kōba aen): zinc yeast
• 酸化亜鉛(さんかあえん) (sanka aen): zinc oxide
• 硫化亜鉛(りゅうかあえん) (ryūka aen): zinc sulfide
• 硫酸亜鉛(りゅうさんあえん) (ryūsan aen): zinc sulfate

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.