氜

氜 U+6C1C, 氜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C1C
← 氛
[U+6C1B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 氝 →
[U+6C1D]

Translingual

Han character

氜 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人弓日 (ONA), composition ⿹气日)

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 599, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17049
  • Dae Jaweon: page 990, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2010, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+6C1C

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 氜

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 气 (“gas; air”) + 日 (“sun”).

Etymology 1

From 日 (rì, “sun”). Influenced by English helium, which comes from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

氜

  1. (obsolete) helium
Synonyms

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 氜 – see 陽 (““male” principle; yang in yin-yang; sun; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 陽).

References
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