See also:
U+6C2B, 氫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C2B

[U+6C2A]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6C2C]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 84, +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人弓一女一 (ONMVM), four-corner 80117, composition)

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 600, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17068
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2013, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6C2B

Chinese

trad.
simp.
Chemical element
H
Next: (He)

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)  and ideogrammic compound (會意) : semantic  (air; gas) + abbreviated phonetic  (light; of low density).

Etymology

From (qīng, “light; of low density”) in 輕氣轻气 [19th c.]. So named as hydrogen gas is lighter than air.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • kheng - literary;
  • khin - vernacular.

Definitions

  1. (chemistry) hydrogen

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(gyeong) (hangeul , McCuneReischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(khinh)

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