Translingual

Han character

氕 (radical 84 气+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人弓中 (ONL), four-corner 8021₇, composition ⿹气丿)

Related terms

• 氘
• 氚

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 599, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2010, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6C15

Chinese

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 气 ‎(“gas”) + 丿 ‎(“one”). Also a phono-semantic compound (形聲) , where 丿 (piě) acts as the phonetic component. Compare 氘 (“deuterium”) and 氚 (“tritium”).

Etymology

From 丿 (piě, “left falling stroke”) from the glyph, possibly influenced by New Latin protium. In Mandarin, it is pronounced in the first tone by analogy with 氘 (dāo, “deuterium”) and 氚 (chuān, “tritium”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

氕

1. protium

See also

• 氘 (dāo, “deuterium”)
• 氚 (chuān, “tritium”)
• 氫／氢 (qīng, “hydrogen”)