硒

Translingual

Han character

硒 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一口一金田 (MRMCW), four-corner 1166₀, composition ⿰石西)

1. selenium

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 830, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24199
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2428, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7852

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		硒

Chemical element
Se
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Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): se

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sai¹
    • Yale: sāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se
    • Tâi-lô: se
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sef
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /se⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /se³³/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 硒

1. selenium

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Japanese

Kanji

硒

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Kan’yō-on: せい (sei)

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Korean

Hanja

硒 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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