砷

砷	U+7837, 砷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7837

← 砶
[U+7836]

CJK Unified Ideographs

砸 →
[U+7838]

Translingual

Han character

砷 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一口中田中 (MRLWL), four-corner 1560₆, composition ⿰石申)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 829, character 33
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24139
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2423, character 5
Unihan data for U+7837

Chinese

simp. and trad.		砷

Chemical element
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Etymology

Earlier 鉮 / 𬬹 in 化學鑑原, a translated version of Wells's Principles and Applications of Chemistry. Probably a loan from English arsenic.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shēn (shen¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): sṳ̂n

(Hailu, HRS): shin^ˋ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sing¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sin
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹sen

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shēn
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shen
  - Wade–Giles: shên¹
  - Yale: shēn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shen
  - Palladius: шэнь (šɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: san¹
  - Yale: sān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: san¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sen¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ̂n
  - Hakka Romanization System: siin^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: sin¹
  - Sinological IPA: /sɨn²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: shin^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /ʃin⁵³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sing¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sing
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sing¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiŋ⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sin
  - Tâi-lô: sin
  - Phofsit Daibuun: syn
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sin⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sin³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹sen
  - MiniDict: sen^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹sen
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sən⁵³/

Definitions

砷

(chemistry) arsenic

Compounds

三氟化砷
三氧化二砷 (sānyǎnghuà'èrshēn)
三氯化砷
三硫化二砷
五氧化二砷
五氯化砷
氧化砷
砷化氫 / 砷化氢 (shēnhuàqīng)
砷酸 (shēnsuān)
砷黃鐵礦 / 砷黄铁矿

References

“砷”, 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–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “砷”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 208.

Japanese

Kanji

砷

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Kan’yō-on: しん (shin)

Korean

Hanja

砷 • (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune–Reischauer shin, Yale sin)

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Vietnamese

Han character

砷: Hán Nôm readings: thân

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