氨

氨	U+6C28, 氨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C28

← 氧
[U+6C27]

CJK Unified Ideographs

氩 →
[U+6C29]

Translingual

Han character

氨 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人弓十女 (ONJV), four-corner 8042₇, composition ⿹气安)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 599, character 15
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17065
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2012, character 1
Unihan data for U+6C28

Chinese

trad.		氨
simp. ^#		氨

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 气 (“gas”) + phonetic 安 (ān).

Etymology

Borrowed from English ammonia. Related to 銨／铵 (ǎn, “ammonium”) and 胺 (àn, “amine”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ān (an¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): on¹ / ngon¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): an

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ān
  - Zhuyin: ㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: an
  - Wade–Giles: an¹
  - Yale: ān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: an
  - Palladius: ань (anʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: on¹ / ngon¹
  - Yale: ōn / ngōn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: on¹ / ngon¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: on¹ / ngon¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔːn⁵⁵/, /ŋɔːn⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: an
  - Tâi-lô: an
  - Phofsit Daibuun: afn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /an⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /an³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /an⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /an⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /an⁴⁴/

Definitions

氨

(inorganic chemistry) ammonia

Synonyms

阿摩尼亞／阿摩尼亚 (āmóníyà)

Compounds

氨化作用
氨基 (ānjī)
氨氣 / 氨气 (ānqì)
氨水 (ānshuǐ)
液氨 (yè'ān)

Japanese

Kanji

氨

(Hyōgai kanji)

synonym of アンモニア (anmonia, “ammonia”)

Readings

Kan’yō-on: あん (an)

Vietnamese

Han character

氨: Hán Nôm readings: an

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