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Translingual
Han character
氘 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人弓中中 (ONLL), four-corner 80217, composition ⿹气⿰丿丨)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 599, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17046
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2010, character 3
- Unihan data for U+6C18
Chinese
Glyph origin
Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 气 (“gas”) + ⿰丿丨 (“two”). Also a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) , where ⿰丿丨, variant of 刀 (dāo), acts as the phonetic component. Compare 氕 (“protium”) and 氚 (“tritium”).
Etymology
From 刀 (dāo) from the glyph, possibly influenced by New Latin deuterium.
Pronunciation
Definitions
氘
- deuterium
Synonyms
See also
- 氕 (piē, “protium”)
- 氚 (chuān, “tritium”)
- 氫／氢 (qīng, “hydrogen”)