氯

See also: 㲶

氯	U+6C2F, 氯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C2F

← 氮
[U+6C2E]

CJK Unified Ideographs

氰 →
[U+6C30]

Translingual

Han character

氯 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人弓弓一水 (ONNME) or 人弓女弓水 (ONVNE), four-corner 8091₇, composition ⿹气彔 or ⿹气录)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 600, character 1
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17072
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2013, character 7
Unihan data for U+6C2F

Chinese

trad.		氯
simp. ^#		氯
alternative forms		㲶 obsolete

Chemical element
Cl
Previous: *硫 (liú) (S)*
Next: 氬／氩 (yà) (Ar)

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Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) : semantic 气 (“gas”) + phonetic 彔. 彔 is also a reduced form of 綠 (“green”), serving as a semantic component.

Etymology

From 綠氣／绿气 (“green gas”) in the 19th century, which is a calque of English chlorine, referring to the colour of chlorine gas.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lǜ, lù (lü⁴, lu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˋ, ㄌㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): luk⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): liu̍k

(Meixian, Guangdong): liug⁶
Eastern Min (BUC): lṳ̆k
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): lio̍k / lia̍k / le̍k

(Teochew, Peng'im): lêg⁸
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸loq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lǜ
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lyù
  - Wade–Giles: lü⁴
  - Yale: lyù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liuh
  - Palladius: люй (ljuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ly⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lù
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lù
  - Wade–Giles: lu⁴
  - Yale: lù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luh
  - Palladius: лу (lu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: luk⁶
  - Yale: luhk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: luk⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: lug⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊk̚²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: liu̍k
  - Hakka Romanization System: liug
  - Hagfa Pinyim: liug⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /li̯uk̚⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: liug⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /liʊk̚⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: lṳ̆k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃yʔ⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lio̍k
  - Tâi-lô: lio̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liok
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /liɔk̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɔk̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /liɔk̚⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lia̍k
  - Tâi-lô: lia̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liak
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /liak̚²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: le̍k
  - Tâi-lô: li̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lek
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /liɪk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪk̚¹²¹/

Note:

lio̍k - literary;
lia̍k/le̍k - vernacular.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: lêg⁸
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: le̍k
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /lek̚⁴/

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁸loq
  - MiniDict: loh^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵loq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /loʔ¹²/

Definitions

氯

(chemistry) chlorine
chlorine gas

Synonyms

(chlorine): (rare) 鹽素／盐素 (yánsù)

Compounds

三氯乙烷
三氯乙烯 (sānlǜyǐxī)
三氯甲烷 (sānlǜjiǎwán)
二氯甲烷 (èrlǜjiǎwán)
亞硝醯氯 / 亚硝醯氯 (yàxiāoxīlǜ)
亞硝醯氯 / 亚硝醯氯 (yàxiāoxīlǜ)
加氯量
可氯丹 (kělǜdān)
四氯化碳 (sìlǜhuàtàn)
多氯聯苯 / 多氯联苯 (duōlǜliánběn)
氯丁橡膠 / 氯丁橡胶
氯丹 (lǜdān)
氯乙烯 (lǜyǐxī)
氯乙烷 (lǜyǐwán)
氯仿 (lǜfǎng)
氯化 (lǜhuà)
氯化氫 / 氯化氢 (lǜhuàqīng)
氯化物 (lǜhuàwù)
氯化鈉 / 氯化钠 (lǜhuànà)
氯化鈣 / 氯化钙 (lǜhuàgài)
氯化鉀 / 氯化钾 (lǜhuàjiǎ)
氯化銀 / 氯化银 (lǜhuàyín)
氯化銨 / 氯化铵 (lǜhuà'ǎn)
氯化鋅 / 氯化锌 (lǜhuàxīn)
氯化鎂 / 氯化镁 (lǜhuàměi)
氯原酸
氯氣 / 氯气 (lǜqì)
氯氣中毒 / 氯气中毒
氯水
氯甲烷 (lǜjiǎwán)
氯絲菌素 / 氯丝菌素
氯綸 / 氯纶
氯胺 (lǜ'àn)
氯胺酮 (lǜ'àntóng)
氯酸 (lǜsuān)
氯醛
氯黴素 / 氯霉素 (lǜméisù)
過氯酸 / 过氯酸 (guòlǜsuān)
雙氯芬酸 / 双氯芬酸 (shuānglǜfēnsuān)
高氯酸 (gāolǜsuān)

References

“氯”, 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–

Korean

Hanja

氯 (eum 록 (rok))

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Vietnamese

Han character

氯: Hán Nôm readings: lục

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