氮

氮 U+6C2E, 氮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C2E ← 氭 [U+6C2D] CJK Unified Ideographs 氯 → [U+6C2F]

Translingual

Han character

氮 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人弓火火 (ONFF), four-corner 8081₇, composition ⿹气炎)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 600, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17071
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2013, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6C2E

Chinese

trad.		氮
simp. #		氮
alternative forms		㲷 obsolete

Chemical element
N
Previous: 碳 (tàn) (C)
Next: 氧 (yǎng) (O)

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : semantic 气 (“gas”) + abbreviated phonetic 淡 (dàn, “dilute”).

Etymology

From 淡 (dàn, “dilute”) in 淡氣／淡气 [19th c.], referring to nitrogen diluting oxygen in the air.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàn (dan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daam⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tham
• Eastern Min (BUC): dâng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tām
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶de

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàn
    • Wade–Giles: tan⁴
    • Yale: dàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dann
    • Palladius: дань (danʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: daam⁶
    • Yale: daahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daam⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dam⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːm²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tham
    • Hakka Romanization System: tam
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tam⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰam⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɑŋ²⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tām
    • Tâi-lô: tām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dam
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tam²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tam⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tam²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tam³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tam³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶de
    • MiniDict: de^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³de
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /de²³/

Definitions

氮

1. (chemistry) nitrogen
2. nitrogen gas

Synonyms

• (nitrogen): (rare, chiefly Taiwanese Hokkien) 窒素 (zhìsù)

Compounds

• 固氮作用 (gùdàn zuòyòng)
• 固氮菌 (gùdànjūn)
• 氮化法
• 氮化物 (dànhuàwù)
• 氮平衡
• 氮循環 / 氮循环 (dànxúnhuán)
• 氮氣 / 氮气 (dànqì)
• 氮環 / 氮环
• 氮肥 (dànféi)
• 氮血症
• 液氮 (yèdàn)

 

References

• “氮”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

氮

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. nitrogen

Readings

• Kan’yō-on: たん (tan)

Usage notes

Not used in Japanese. Some sources erroneously give a meaning of xenon, instead of the correct nitrogen.

The Japanese word for nitrogen is 窒素 (chisso).

Korean

Hanja

氮 • (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune–Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

1. nitrogen

Vietnamese

Han character

氮: Hán Nôm readings: đạm

1. nitrogen