鋁

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See also: 铝
鋁 U+92C1, 鋁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-92C1
← 鋀
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鋂 →

Translingual

Han character

鋁 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 金口竹口 (CRHR) or 金口口 (CRR), four-corner 86160, composition ⿰釒呂)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1306, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40434
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1808, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4196, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+92C1

Chinese

trad. 鋁
simp. 铝

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 呂.

Etymology 1

Chemical element
Al
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Borrowed from New Latin aluminium.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • lū/lǐr/lī/līr - vernacular;
  • lú/lír/lí - literary.

Definitions

鋁

  1. (chemistry) aluminium; aluminum
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 鋁 (“aluminium; aluminum ”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 鋁
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 鋁
Cantonese Hong Kong 鋁
Southern Min Taipei a-lú-mih
New Taipei (Sanxia) a-lú-mih
Kaohsiung 輕銀仔, a-lú-mih
Yilan a-lú-mih
Changhua (Lukang) a-lú-mih
Taichung 輕銀仔, a-lú-mih
Tainan 輕銀仔, a-lú-mih
Hsinchu a-lú-mih
Kinmen 鋁
Penghu (Magong) 輕銀, a-lú-mih
Wu Shanghai 鋁
Xiang Changsha 輕飄, 鑌鐵
Descendants
  • → Zhuang: lij

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 鋁 – see 鑢 (“file, rasp; to file; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 鑢).

Japanese

Kanji

鋁

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. aluminum

Readings

  • Go-on: ろ (ro)
  • Kan-on: りょ (ryo)
  • Kun: やすり (yasuri, 鋁)、アルミニウム (aruminiumu)

Korean

Hanja

鋁 • (ryeo) (hangeul 려, revised ryeo, McCune–Reischauer ryŏ, Yale lye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鋁: Hán Nôm readings: lã, lữ

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