亜鉛

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Japanese

Chemical element
Zn
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Kanji in this term
亜 鉛
あ
Grade: S 		えん
Grade: S
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
亞鉛 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

First appears in Japanese in the 1713 edition of the 和漢三才図会 (Wakan Sansai Zue, “Illustrated Sino-Japanese Encyclopedia”). Appears to be a Japanese coinage as 亜 (a, “next, sub-”) + 鉛 (en, “lead”, the metal), probably from the way that zinc is often found together with lead in ores. Probably influenced by early Hokkien 倭鉛／倭铅 (e-iân), early Mandarin 倭鉛／倭铅 (wōqiān, literally “Japanese lead”).

Pronunciation

Noun

亜(あ)鉛(えん) • (aen) 

  1. zinc, Zn

Derived terms

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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