氙

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See also: 氠
氙 U+6C19, 氙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C19
← 氘
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 氚 →

Translingual

Han character

氙 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人弓山 (ONU), four-corner 80717, composition ⿹气山)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 599, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17047
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2010, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+6C19

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 氙
Chemical element
Xe
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Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) : semantic 气 (“gas”) + phonetic 山 (“mountain”). The phonetic component is abbreviated from 仙 (“celestial being”).

Etymology

Borrowed from English xenon.

Pronunciation

Definitions

氙

  1. (chemistry) xenon

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

氙

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. xenon

Readings

  • Kan’yō-on: せん (sen)

Usage notes

This character is not used in Japanese.

Korean

Hanja

氙 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune–Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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