矽

Translingual

Han character

矽 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一口弓戈 (MRNI), four-corner 1762₀, composition ⿰石夕)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 827, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24045
• Dae Jaweon: page 1242, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2418, character 2
• Unihan data for U+77FD

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Chinese

trad.		矽
simp. #		矽

Chemical element
Si
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Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 石 (“stone”) + phonetic 夕 (OC *ljaːɡ).

Etymology

From English silicon, coined by Xu Shou in 1871. The term is dated in Mainland China as it is homophonous to 硒 (xī) and 錫／锡 (xī).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī, xì

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ, ㄒㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zik⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sia̍k / se̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xì
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sì
    • Wade–Giles: hsi⁴
    • Yale: syì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shih
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zik⁶
    • Yale: jihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: sia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siak̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siak̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se̍k
    • Tâi-lô: si̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sek
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɪk̚¹²¹/

Note: se̍k - literary.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 矽

1. (chemistry, chiefly Taiwan and Hong Kong, dated in Mainland China) silicon

Synonyms

• 硅 (guī)

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Korean

Hanja

矽 • (seok) (hangeul 석, revised seok, McCune–Reischauer sŏk, Yale sek)

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