氙

See also: 氠

氙	U+6C19, 氙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C19

← 氘
[U+6C18]

CJK Unified Ideographs

氚 →
[U+6C1A]

Translingual

Han character

氙 (radical 84 气+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人弓山 (ONU), four-corner 8071₇, composition ⿹气山)

References

KangXi: not present, would follow page 599, character 4

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17047

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2010, character 7

Unihan data for U+6C19

Chinese

simp. and trad.		氙

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 气 (“gas”) + phonetic 山 (“mountain”). The phonetic component is abbreviated from 仙 (“celestial being”).

Etymology

Borrowed from English xenon.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiān (xian¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sin¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: xiān
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢ
  - Wade–Giles: hsien¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shian
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sin¹
  - Yale: sīn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sin¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xin¹
  - IPA ^(key): /siːn⁵⁵/

Definitions

氙

(chemistry) xenon

Synonyms

(obsolete) 氠 (shēn), 氥 (xī), 𣱧 (zhòng)

Compounds

三氧化氙
二氟化氙
二氧化氙

二氯化氙
六氟化氙
六氟合鉑酸氙／六氟合铂酸氙

四氟化氙
四氧化氙
氙氣／氙气

Japanese

Kanji

氙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

xenon

Readings

Goon: せん (sen)
Kan’on: せん (sen)

Usage notes

This character is not used in Japanese.

Korean

Hanja

氙 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune–Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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