氮

氮	U+6C2E, 氮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C2E

← 氭
[U+6C2D]

CJK Unified Ideographs

氯 →
[U+6C2F]

Translingual

Han character

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

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.		氮

Chemical element
N	Previous: 碳 (C)
N	Next: 氧 (O)

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) and ideogrammic compound (會意) : semantic 气 (“gas”) + abbreviated phonetic 淡 (“dilute”).

Etymology

From 淡 (dàn, “dilute”) in 淡氣／淡气 [19th c.], referring to nitrogen diluting oxygen in the air.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dàn (dan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daam⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tham
Min Dong (BUC): dâng
Min Nan (POJ): tām
Wu (Wiktionary): de (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: dàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ
  - Wade–Giles: tan⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dann
  - IPA ^(key): /tän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: daam⁶
  - Yale: daahm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daam⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: dam⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /täːm²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tham
  - Hakka Romanization System: tam
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tam⁴
  - IPA: /tʰam⁵⁵/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dâng
  - IPA ^(key): /tɑŋ²⁴²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tām
  - Tâi-lô: tām
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dam
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tam²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tam⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tam²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tam³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tam³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: de (T3)
  - IPA ^(key): /d̻e̞²³/

Definitions

氮

nitrogen

Synonyms

(rare, chiefly Taiwanese Min Nan) 窒素 (zhìsù)

Compounds

固氮作用
固氮菌
氮化法
氮化物

氮平衡
氮循環／氮循环 (dànxúnhuán)
氮氣／氮气 (dànqì)
氮環／氮环

氮肥 (dànféi)
氮血症
液氮 (yèdàn)

Japanese

Kanji

氮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

nitrogen

Readings

Kan’yō-on: たん (tan)

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

氮 • (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune–Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

nitrogen

Vietnamese

Han character

氮 (đạm)

nitrogen

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