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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 84 +8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人弓火火 (ONFF), four-corner 80817, composition)

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 600, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17071
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2013, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6C2E

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Etymology

From (dàn, “dilute”), referring to nitrogen diluting oxygen in the air.

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. nitrogen

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. nitrogen

Readings

Usage notes

Not used in Japanese. Some sources erroneously give a meaning of xenon, instead of the correct nitrogen.

The Japanese word for nitrogen is 窒素 (chisso).


Korean

Hanja

(dam) (hangeul , revised dam, McCune-Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

  1. nitrogen

Vietnamese

Han character

(đạm)

  1. nitrogen