氙

See also: 氠

氙	U+6C19, 氙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C19

← 氘
[U+6C18]

CJK Unified Ideographs

氚 →
[U+6C1A]

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
Previous: *碘 (diǎn) (I)*
Next: 銫／铯 (sè) (Cs)

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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiān (xian¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sin¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sian
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ¹shi

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiān
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sian
  - Wade–Giles: hsien¹
  - Yale: syān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shian
  - Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sin¹
  - Yale: sīn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sin¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xin¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sian
  - Tâi-lô: sian
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siefn
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siɛn⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siɛn³³/
Wu
- (Shanghai):
  - Wugniu: ¹shi
  - MiniDict: shi^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹xi
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕi⁵³/

Definitions

氙

(chemistry) xenon

Synonyms

(obsolete) 氠 (shēn), 氥 (xī), 𣱧 (zhòng)

Compounds

三氧化氙
二氟化氙
二氧化氙
二氯化氙
六氟化氙
六氟合鉑酸氙／六氟合铂酸氙
四氟化氙
四氧化氙
氙氣／氙气

Japanese

Kanji

氙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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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