氥

氥	U+6C25, 氥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C25

← 氤
[U+6C24]

CJK Unified Ideographs

氦 →
[U+6C26]

Translingual

Han character

氥 (radical 84, 气+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人弓一金田 (ONMCW), four-corner 8061₇, composition ⿹气西)

References

KangXi: not present, would follow page 599, character 15

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17062

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2011, character 9

Unihan data for U+6C25

Chinese

simp. and trad.		氥

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 气 (“gas”) + phonetic 西.

Etymology

Borrowed from English xenon. Obsoleted, as it is homophonous to 硒 (xī, “selenium”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: xī
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
  - Wade–Giles: hsih¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sai¹
  - Yale: sāi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sei¹
  - IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

氥

(chemistry, obsolete) xenon

Synonyms

氙 (xiān)

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