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氧
氧
See also: 氱
Translingual
Han character
氧 (radical 84 气+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人弓廿手 (ONTQ), four-corner 80517, composition ⿹气羊)
References
- KangXi: not present, would follow page 599, character 15
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17064
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2011, character 13
- Unihan data for U+6C27
Chinese
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Glyph origin
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 气 (“gas”) + 羊 (“nourish”), the latter simplified from 養 (“to nourish”).
Also phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 气 + phonetic 羊 (OC *laŋ).
Etymology
From 養／养 (yǎng, “to nourish”), referring to oxygen's role in sustaining life.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): joeng5
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yông
- Min Dong (BUC): iōng
- Min Nan (POJ): ióng / iáng
- Wu (Wiktionary): hhian (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄤˇ
- Wade-Giles: yang3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeang
- IPA (key): /i̯ɑŋ²¹⁴/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: joeng5
- Yale: yéuhng
- Cantonese Pinyin: joeng5
- IPA (key): /jœːŋ¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yông
- Hakka Romanization System: iong´
- Hagfa Pinyim: yong1
- IPA: /i̯oŋ²⁴/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yông
- Hakka Romanization System: (r)iong´
- Hagfa Pinyim: yong1
- IPA: /(j)i̯oŋ²⁴/
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: iōng
- IPA (key): /yoŋ³³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ióng
- Tâi-lô: ióng
- Phofsit Daibuun: iorng
- IPA (Quanzhou): /iɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /iɔŋ⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɔŋ⁴¹/
- IPA (Xiamen): /iɔŋ⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iáng
- Tâi-lô: iáng
- Phofsit Daibuun: iarng
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /iaŋ⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: hhian (T3)
- IPA (key): /ɦiã²³/
- (Shanghainese)
Definitions
氧
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
氧 • (yang) (hangeul 양)
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Vietnamese
Han character
氧 (dưỡng)
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