Translingual

Han character

溴 (radical 85 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水竹山大 (EHUK), four-corner 3613₄, composition ⿰氵臭)

1. bromine

References

• KangXi: page 641, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17981
• Dae Jaweon: page 1048, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1701, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6EB4

Chinese

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 氵 ‎(“water; liquid”) + 臭 ‎(“stink; odorous”). Also a phono-semantic compound (形聲) , with 臭 (chòu, xiù) as a phonetic component.

Etymology

From 臭 (chòu, “stink; odorous”), semantic loan of Ancient Greek βρῶμος ‎(brômos, “stink”).

Pronunciation

Noun

溴

1. bromine

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

溴 • ‎(chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune-Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)

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