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光子

光子

Chinese

		light; ray; bright	child; son; (noun suff.) child; son; (noun suff.); small thing; midnight; 11 p.m.-1 a.m.; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch
simp. and trad. (光子)		光	子

Noun

光子

(physics) photon (Classifier: 粒 m)

References

光子 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
光	子
こう Grade: 2	し Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

On'yomi
(Tokyo) こうし [kóꜜòshì] (Atamadaka - [1])
IPA^(key): [ko̞ːɕi]

Noun

光子 ‎(hiragana こうし, romaji kōshi, historical hiragana くわうし)

(physics) a photon

See also

素粒子 (そりゅうし) ‎(soryūshi): subatomic particle
陽子 (ようし) ‎(yōshi): proton

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
光	子
みつ Grade: 2	こ Grade: 1

Proper noun

光子 ‎(hiragana みつこ, romaji Mitsuko)

A female given name