溴

溴	U+6EB4, 溴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EB4

Translingual

Han character

溴 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水竹山大 (EHUK), four-corner 3613₄, composition ⿰氵臭)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 641, character 2
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17981
Dae Jaweon: page 1048, character 10
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1701, character 2
Unihan data for U+6EB4

Chinese

trad.		溴
simp. ^#		溴

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溴

Glyph origin

Etymology 1: Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 氵 (“water; liquid”) + phonetic 臭 (OC *kʰljus, “stink; odorous”).

Etymology 2: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 氵 (“water; liquid”) + phonetic 臭 (OC *kʰljus, “stink; odorous”).

Etymology 1

Chemical element
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From 臭 (chòu, “stink; odorous”), semantic loan from Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “stink”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiù (xiu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄡˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cau³
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ciu⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hiù

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiù
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siòu
  - Wade–Giles: hsiu⁴
  - Yale: syòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiow
  - Palladius: сю (sju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: cau³
  - Yale: chau
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsau³
  - Guangdong Romanization: ceo³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐu̯³³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ciu⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiu⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiù
  - Tâi-lô: hiù
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hiux
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hiu²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hiu⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiu²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hiu¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiu²¹/

Definitions

溴

bromine

Compounds

氫溴酸／氢溴酸 (qīngxiùsuān)
汞溴紅／汞溴红 (gǒngxiùhóng)
溴中毒
溴乙烷 (xiùyǐwán)
溴化氫／溴化氢 (xiùhuàqīng)
溴化物 (xiùhuàwù)
溴化鈉／溴化钠 (xiùhuànà)
溴化鉀／溴化钾 (xiùhuàjiǎ)
溴化銀／溴化银 (xiùhuàyín)
溴化鎂／溴化镁
溴水 (xiùshuǐ)
溴甲烷 (xiùjiǎwán)
溴酸 (xiùsuān)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chòu (chou⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄡˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chòu
  - Wade–Giles: chʻou⁴
  - Yale: chòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chow
  - Palladius: чоу (čou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰoʊ̯⁵¹/

Definitions

溴

steam

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “溴”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 267.

Korean

Hanja

溴 • (chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune–Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)

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