酚

酚 U+915A, 酚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-915A ← 酙 [U+9159] CJK Unified Ideographs 酛 → [U+915B]

Translingual

Han character

酚 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一田金尸竹 (MWCSH), four-corner 1862₇, composition ⿰酉分)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1281, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39808
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3576, character 10
• Unihan data for U+915A

Chinese

trad.		酚
simp. #		酚

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) : semantic 酉 + phonetic 分 (fēn).

Etymology

Borrowed from English phenol.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēn (fen¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fen
    • Wade–Giles: fên¹
    • Yale: fēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fen
    • Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fan¹
    • Yale: fān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵/

Definitions

酚

1. (organic chemistry) phenol (any of a class of aromatic organic compounds having at least one hydroxyl group attached directly to the benzene ring)

Compounds

• 苯酚 (běnfēn)
• 酚酞 (fēntài)

 

Japanese

Kanji

酚

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. phenol

Readings

• Go-on: ふん (fun)
• Kan-on: ふん (fun)