氯

See also: 㲶

氯 U+6C2F, 氯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C2F ← 氮 [U+6C2E] CJK Unified Ideographs 氰 → [U+6C30]

Translingual

Han character

氯 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人弓弓一水 (ONNME) or 人弓女弓水 (ONVNE), four-corner 8091₇, composition ⿹气彔 or ⿹气录)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 600, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17072
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2013, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6C2F

Chinese

trad.		氯
simp. #		氯
alternative forms		㲶 obsolete

Chemical element
Cl
Previous: 硫 (liú) (S)
Next: 氬／氩 (yà) (Ar)

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) : semantic 气 (“gas”) + phonetic 彔. 彔 is also a reduced form of 綠 (“green”), serving as a semantic component.

Etymology

From 綠氣／绿气 (“green gas”) in the 19th century, which is a calque of English chlorine, referring to the colour of chlorine gas.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǜ, lù (lü⁴, lu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˋ, ㄌㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): luk⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): liu̍k

  (Meixian, Guangdong): liug⁶

• Eastern Min (BUC): lṳ̆k
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): lio̍k / lia̍k / le̍k

  (Teochew, Peng'im): lêg⁸

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸loq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǜ
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lyù
    • Wade–Giles: lü⁴
    • Yale: lyù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liuh
    • Palladius: люй (ljuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ly⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lù
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lù
    • Wade–Giles: lu⁴
    • Yale: lù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luh
    • Palladius: лу (lu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: luk⁶
    • Yale: luhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: luk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: liu̍k
    • Hakka Romanization System: liug
    • Hagfa Pinyim: liug⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /li̯uk̚⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: liug⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /liʊk̚⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: lṳ̆k
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃yʔ⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lio̍k
    • Tâi-lô: lio̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liok
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /liɔk̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: lia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liak̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: le̍k
    • Tâi-lô: li̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lek
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /liɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪk̚¹²¹/

Note:

• lio̍k - literary;
• lia̍k/le̍k - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: lêg⁸
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: le̍k
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lek̚⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸loq
    • MiniDict: loh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵loq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /loʔ¹²/

Definitions

氯

1. (chemistry) chlorine
2. chlorine gas

Synonyms

• (chlorine): (rare) 鹽素／盐素 (yánsù)

Compounds

• 三氯乙烷
• 三氯乙烯 (sānlǜyǐxī)
• 三氯甲烷 (sānlǜjiǎwán)
• 二氯甲烷 (èrlǜjiǎwán)
• 亞硝醯氯 / 亚硝醯氯 (yàxiāoxīlǜ)
• 加氯量
• 可氯丹 (kělǜdān)
• 四氯化碳 (sìlǜhuàtàn)
• 多氯聯苯 / 多氯联苯 (duōlǜliánběn)
• 氯丁橡膠 / 氯丁橡胶
• 氯丹 (lǜdān)
• 氯乙烯 (lǜyǐxī)
• 氯乙烷 (lǜyǐwán)
• 氯仿 (lǜfǎng)
• 氯化 (lǜhuà)
• 氯化氫 / 氯化氢 (lǜhuàqīng)
• 氯化物 (lǜhuàwù)
• 氯化鈉 / 氯化钠 (lǜhuànà)
• 氯化鈣 / 氯化钙 (lǜhuàgài)
• 氯化鉀 / 氯化钾 (lǜhuàjiǎ)
• 氯化銀 / 氯化银 (lǜhuàyín)
• 氯化銨 / 氯化铵 (lǜhuà'ǎn)
• 氯化鋅 / 氯化锌 (lǜhuàxīn)
• 氯化鎂 / 氯化镁 (lǜhuàměi)
• 氯原酸
• 氯氣 / 氯气 (lǜqì)
• 氯氣中毒 / 氯气中毒
• 氯水
• 氯甲烷 (lǜjiǎwán)
• 氯絲菌素 / 氯丝菌素
• 氯綸 / 氯纶
• 氯胺 (lǜ'àn)
• 氯胺酮 (lǜ'àntóng)
• 氯酸 (lǜsuān)
• 氯醛
• 氯黴素 / 氯霉素 (lǜméisù)
• 過氯酸 / 过氯酸 (guòlǜsuān)
• 雙氯芬酸 / 双氯芬酸 (shuānglǜfēnsuān)
• 高氯酸 (gāolǜsuān)

References

• “氯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Korean

Hanja

氯 (eum 록 (rok))

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Vietnamese

Han character

氯: Hán Nôm readings: lục

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