砷

砷 U+7837, 砷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7837 ← 砶 [U+7836] CJK Unified Ideographs 砸 → [U+7838]

Translingual

Han character

砷 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一口中田中 (MRLWL), four-corner 1560₆, composition ⿰石申)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 829, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24139
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2423, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7837

Chinese

simp. and trad.		砷

Chemical element
As
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Etymology

Earlier 鉮 / 𬬹 in 化學鑑原, a translated version of Wells's Principles and Applications of Chemistry. Probably a loan from English arsenic.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shēn (shen¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sin
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹sen

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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/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sin
    • Tâi-lô: sin
    • Phofsit Daibuun: syn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sin³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹sen
    • MiniDict: sen^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹sen
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sən⁵³/

Definitions

砷

1. (chemistry) arsenic

Compounds

• 三氟化砷
• 三氧化二砷 (sānyǎnghuà'èrshēn)
• 三氯化砷
• 三硫化二砷
• 五氧化二砷
• 五氯化砷
• 氧化砷
• 砷化氫 / 砷化氢 (shēnhuàqīng)
• 砷酸 (shēnsuān)
• 砷黃鐵礦 / 砷黄铁矿

 

References

• “砷”, 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

砷

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Kan’yō-on: しん (shin)

Korean

Hanja

砷 • (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune–Reischauer shin, Yale sin)

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Vietnamese

Han character

砷: Hán Nôm readings: thân

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