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亜鉛

亜鉛

Japanese

Chemical element
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Kanji in this term
亜 鉛
あ
Grade: S 		えん
Grade: S
on'yomi

Noun

亜鉛 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 亞鉛, hiragana あえん, romaji aen)

  1. zinc, Zn

Derived terms

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.

Etymology

First appears in Japanese in the 1713 edition of the 和漢三才図会 (Wakan Sansai Zue, “Illustrated Sino-Japanese Encyclopedia”). Appears to be a Japanese coinage as 亜 ‎(a, “next, sub-”) + 鉛 ‎(en, “lead”, the metal), probably from the way that zinc is often found together with lead in ores. Probably influenced by early Min Nan 倭鉛 ‎(e iân), early Mandarin 倭鉛 ‎(wōqiān, literally “dwarf lead” → “zinc”).

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