烷

Translingual

Han character

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

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 671, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19047
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2206, character 1
• Unihan data for U+70F7

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Chinese

trad.		烷
simp. #		烷

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 完 (OC *ɦŋoːn, “full; complete”). 火 is a common radical used for names of hydrocarbons.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wán (wan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): oân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wán
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wán
    • Wade–Giles: wan²
    • Yale: wán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wan
    • Palladius: вань (vanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyun⁴
    • Yale: yùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oân
    • Tâi-lô: uân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oaan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /uan²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uan²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /uan²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan²³/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 烷

1. ^† fire

Etymology 2

From 完 (wán, “full; complete”), referring to the saturation of the carbons in alkanes. Compare 烯 (xī) and 炔 (quē).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wán (wan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴ / jyun^4-2
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): oân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wán
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wán
    • Wade–Giles: wan²
    • Yale: wán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wan
    • Palladius: вань (vanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyun⁴ / jyun^4-2
    • Yale: yùhn / yún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴ / jyn^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁴ / yun^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹/, /jyːn²¹⁻³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oân
    • Tâi-lô: uân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oaan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /uan²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uan²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /uan²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan²³/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 烷

1. (organic chemistry) alkane

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 烷 (hoàn)

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