萘

萘	U+8418, 萘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8418

← 萗
[U+8417]

CJK Unified Ideographs

萙 →
[U+8419]

Translingual

Han character

萘 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿大一火 (TKMF), four-corner 4490, composition ⿱艹奈)

Derived characters

𬄠

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1042, character 26
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31329
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3231, character 10
Unihan data for U+8418

Chinese

trad.		萘
simp. ^#		萘

Etymology

Borrowed from English naphthalene.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): nài (nai⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄋㄞˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): noi⁶
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): nai⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: nài
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: nài
  - Wade–Giles: nai⁴
  - Yale: nài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nay
  - Palladius: най (naj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /naɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: noi⁶
  - Yale: noih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: noi⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: noi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɔːi̯²²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: nai⁵
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: nāi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nai¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: nai⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nai²¹/

Definitions

萘

(organic chemistry) naphthalene

Compounds

萘啶 (nàidìng)
萘普生 (nàipǔshēng)

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “萘”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 162.