氖

氖	U+6C16, 氖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C16

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[U+6C15]

CJK Unified Ideographs

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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

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
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: nâi
  - 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

(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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