汞

汞 (radical 85, 水+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一水 (ME), four-corner 1023₂, composition ⿱工水)

• KangXi: page 606, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17139
• Dae Jaweon: page 999, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1550, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6C5E

汞

1. (chemistry) mercury (Hg)

• 水銀／水银 (shuǐyín)

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. mercury, quicksilver (the metal)

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: みずがね (mizugane, 汞)^{←みづがね (midugane, historical)}

汞 (mizugane): mercury.

Compound of 水 (mizu, “water”) +‎ 銀 (kane, “metal, silver”). The kane changes to gane as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [mʲizɨᵝɡa̠ne̞]

汞 (hiragana みずがね, rōmaji mizugane, historical hiragana みづがね)

1. (chemistry, rare, obsolete) Alternative spelling of 水銀: mercury, quicksilver

The term mizugane, regardless of kanji spelling, is largely obsolete in modern Japanese.

The usage of this kanji is extremely rare, and it is not used in isolation in modern Japanese. Use 水銀 instead for the standalone word for mercury.

From Middle Chinese 汞 (ɦuŋ^X, “mercury, quicksilver”).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • IPA^(key): [ko̞ː]

汞 (hiragana こう, rōmaji kō)

1. (chemistry) mercury, quicksilver

The kō reading is used in chemical compounds that include (e.g. corrosive sublimate).

• 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
• 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

汞 (eum 홍 (hong))

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汞: Hán Nôm readings: hống

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