Translingual

Han character

氘 (radical 84 气+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人弓中中 (ONLL), four-corner 8021₇, composition ⿸气⿰丿丨)

Related terms

• 氕
• 氚

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 599, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17046
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2010, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6C18

Chinese

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 气 ‎(“gas”) + ⿰丿丨 ‎(“two”). Also a phono-semantic compound (形聲) , where ⿰丿丨, variant of 刀 (dāo), acts as the phonetic component. Compare 氕 (“protium”) and 氚 (“tritium”).

Etymology

From 刀 (dāo) from the glyph, possibly influenced by New Latin deuterium.

Pronunciation

Definitions

氘

1. deuterium

Synonyms

• 重氫／重氢

See also

• 氕 (piē, “protium”)
• 氚 (chuān, “tritium”)
• 氫／氢 (qīng, “hydrogen”)