烷

烷	U+70F7, 烷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70F7

← 烶
[U+70F6]

CJK Unified Ideographs

烸 →
[U+70F8]

Translingual

Han character

烷 (radical 86 火+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火十一山 (FJMU), four-corner 9381₁, composition ⿰火完)

References

KangXi: page 671, character 19
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19047
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2206, character 1
Unihan data for U+70F7

Chinese

simp. and trad.		烷

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 完 (OC *ɦŋoːn, “full; complete”). 火 is a common radical used for names of hydrocarbons.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wán (wan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴
Min Nan (POJ): oân

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: wán
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˊ
  - Wade-Giles: wan²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wan
  - IPA ^(key): /u̯a̠n³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jyun⁴
  - Yale: yùhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yun⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oân
  - Tâi-lô: uân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oaan
  - IPA (Xiamen): /uan²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /uan²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /uan²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan²³/

Definitions

烷

^† fire

Etymology 2

From 完 (wán, “full; complete”), referring to the saturation of the carbons in alkanes.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wán (wan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴, jyun^4-2
Min Nan (POJ): oân

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: wán
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˊ
  - Wade-Giles: wan²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wan
  - IPA ^(key): /u̯a̠n³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jyun⁴, jyun^4-2
  - Yale: yùhn, yún
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴, jyn^4-2
  - Guangdong Romanization: yun⁴, yun²
  - IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹/, /jyːn²¹⁻³⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oân
  - Tâi-lô: uân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oaan
  - IPA (Xiamen): /uan²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /uan²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /uan²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan²³/

Definitions

烷

(organic chemistry) alkane

Compounds

丁烷 (dīngwán)
三氯乙烷
三鹵甲烷／三卤甲烷
丙烷 (bǐngwán)
乙烷 (yǐwán)
壬烷 (rénwán)

己烷 (jǐwán)
庚烷 (gēngwán)
戊烷 (wùwán)
烷基
烷烴／烷烃 (wántīng)

甲烷 (jiǎwán)
癸烷 (guǐwán)
硼烷 (péngwán)
螺烷
辛烷 (xīnwán)

Vietnamese

Han character

烷 (hoàn)

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