氕

氕 U+6C15, 氕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C15 ← 气 [U+6C14] CJK Unified Ideographs 氖 → [U+6C16]

Translingual

Han character

氕 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人弓中 (ONL), four-corner 8021₇, composition ⿹气丿)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 599, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2010, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6C15

Chinese

simp. and trad.		氕

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 气 (“gas”) + 丿 (“one”). Also a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声), where 丿 (piě) acts as the phonetic component. Compare 氘 (“deuterium”) and 氚 (“tritium”).

Etymology

From 丿 (piě, “left falling stroke”) from the glyph, possibly influenced by New Latin protium. In Mandarin, it is pronounced in the first tone by analogy with 氘 (dāo, “deuterium”) and 氚 (chuān, “tritium”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): piē (pie¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pit³
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): peh⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: piē
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pie
    • Wade–Giles: pʻieh¹
    • Yale: pyē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pie
    • Palladius: пе (pe)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: pit³
    • Yale: pit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: pid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiːt̚³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: peh⁶
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: peh
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɛʔ²¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: peh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɛʔ²/

Definitions

氕

1. protium

See also

• 氘 (dāo, “deuterium”)
• 氚 (chuān, “tritium”)
• 氫／氢 (qīng, “hydrogen”)

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “氕”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 177.