氮

Translingual

Han character

氮 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人弓火火 (ONFF), four-corner 8081₇, composition ⿹气炎)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 600, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17071
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2013, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6C2E

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Chinese

trad.		氮
simp. #		氮

Chemical element
N
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Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 气 (“gas”) + abbreviated phonetic 淡 (“dilute”).

Etymology

From 淡 (dàn, “dilute”) in 淡氣／淡气 [19th c.], referring to nitrogen diluting oxygen in the air.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 氮

1. nitrogen

Synonyms

• (rare, chiefly Taiwanese Min Nan) 窒素 (zhìsù)

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

氮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. nitrogen

Readings

• Kan’yō-on: たん (tan)

Usage notes

Not used in Japanese. Some sources erroneously give a meaning of xenon, instead of the correct nitrogen.

The Japanese word for nitrogen is 窒素 (chisso).

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Korean

Hanja

氮 • (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune–Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

1. nitrogen

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 氮 (đạm)

1. nitrogen