氖

氖 U+6C16, 氖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C16 ← 氕 [U+6C15] CJK Unified Ideographs 気 → [U+6C17]

Translingual

Han character

氖 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人弓弓竹尸 (ONNHS), four-corner 8021₇, composition ⿹气乃)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 599, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17045
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2010, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6C16

Chinese

simp. and trad.		氖

Chemical element
Ne
Previous: 氟 (fú) (F)
Next: 鈉／钠 (nà) (Na)

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nǎi (nai³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄞˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naai⁵
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): nai³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): nái
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶ne

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nǎi
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄞˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nǎi
    • Wade–Giles: nai³
    • Yale: nǎi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nae
    • Palladius: най (naj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: naai⁵
    • Yale: náaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naai⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: nai⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naːi̯¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: nai³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nai⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: nai³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nai³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nái
    • Tâi-lô: nái
    • Phofsit Daibuun: nae
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /nãi⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /nãi⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶ne
    • MiniDict: ne^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³ne
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ne²³/

Definitions

氖

1. (chemistry) neon

Synonyms

• 氝 (nèi)
• 霓虹 (níhóng)

References

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

Korean

Hanja

氖 • (nae) (hangeul 내, revised nae, McCune–Reischauer nae, Yale nay)

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