溴

溴 U+6EB4, 溴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EB4 ← 溳 [U+6EB3] CJK Unified Ideographs 溵 → [U+6EB5]

Translingual

Han character

溴 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水竹山大 (EHUK), four-corner 3613₄, composition ⿰氵臭)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 641, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17981
• Dae Jaweon: page 1048, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1701, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6EB4

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Chinese

trad.		溴
simp. #		溴

Glyph origin

Etymology 1: Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 氵 (“water; liquid”) + phonetic 臭 (OC *kʰljus, “stink; odorous”).

Etymology 2: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 氵 (“water; liquid”) + phonetic 臭 (OC *kʰljus, “stink; odorous”).

Etymology 1

Chemical element
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From 臭 (chòu, “stink; odorous”), semantic loan from Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “stink”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiù (xiu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cau³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hiù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiù
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siòu
    • Wade–Giles: hsiu⁴
    • Yale: syòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiow
    • Palladius: сю (sju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cau³
    • Yale: chau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ceo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐu̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiù
    • Tâi-lô: hiù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hiu²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiu²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiu¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiu²¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 溴

1. bromine

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chòu (chou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄡˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chòu
    • Wade–Giles: chʻou⁴
    • Yale: chòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chow
    • Palladius: чоу (čou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰoʊ̯⁵¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 溴

1. steam

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Korean

Hanja

溴 • (chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune–Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)

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