氠

See also: 氙

氠 U+6C20, 氠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C20 ← 氟 [U+6C1F] CJK Unified Ideographs 氡 → [U+6C21]

Translingual

Han character

氠 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人弓中田中 (ONLWL), four-corner 8051₇, composition ⿹气申)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 599, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2011, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6C20

Chinese

simp. and trad.		氠

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 气 (“gas”) + phonetic 申.

Etymology

Borrowed from English xenon. Obsoleted, as it is homophonous to 砷 (shēn, “arsenic”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shēn (shen¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shen
    • Wade–Giles: shên¹
    • Yale: shēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shen
    • Palladius: шэнь (šɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: san¹
    • Yale: sān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: san¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵/

Definitions

氠

1. (chemistry, obsolete) xenon

Synonyms

• 氙 (xiān)
• 氠 (shēn) (obsolete)
• 𣱧 (zhòng) (obsolete)