鈾

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See also: 铀
鈾 U+923E, 鈾
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-923E
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鈿 →

Translingual

Han character

鈾 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金中田 (CLW), four-corner 85160, composition ⿰釒由)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1300, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40278
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4186, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+923E

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (由) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
袖 *ljɯwɢs
岫 *ljɯwɢs
牰 *ljɯwɢs, *lɯwɢs
抽 *l̥ʰɯw
妯 *l̥ʰɯw, *l'ɯwɢ
紬 *l'ɯw
怞 *l'ɯw
鮋 *l'ɯw, *ɦljɯw, *lɯw
菗 *rlɯw
宙 *l'ɯwɢs
胄 *l'ɯwɢs
冑 *l'ɯwɢs
伷 *l'ɯwɢs
駎 *l'ɯwɢs
油 *lɯw, *lɯwɢs
由 *lɯw
蚰 *lɯw
秞 *lɯw
邮 *lɯw
釉 *lɯwɢs
柚 *lɯwɢs, *l'ɯwɢ
鼬 *lɯwɢs
苖 *l'ɯːwɢ, *l̥ʰɯwɢ
笛 *l'ɯːwɢ
迪 *l'ɯːwɢ
頔 *l'ɯːwɢ
軸 *l'ɯwɢ
舳 *l'ɯwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 由 (OC *lɯw).

Etymology 1

trad. 鈾
simp. 铀
Chemical element
U
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Pronunciation

Definitions

鈾

  1. (chemistry) uranium
    鈾濃縮／铀浓缩  ―  yóu nóngsuō  ―  uranium enrichment

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 鈾 – see 冑 (“helmet worn by warriors in ancient times”).
(This character is a variant form of 冑).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 鈾 – see 宙.
(This character is a variant form of 宙).

References

  • “鈾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “铀”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 289.

Japanese

Kanji

鈾

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): ちゅう (chū)、ゆう (yū)
  • Kun: ウラン (uran)、ウラニウム (uraniumu)

Vietnamese

Han character

鈾: Hán Nôm readings: du, do

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