矽

矽 U+77FD, 矽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-77FD ← 矼 [U+77FC] CJK Unified Ideographs 矾 → [U+77FE]

Translingual

Han character

矽 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一口弓戈 (MRNI), four-corner 1762₀, composition ⿰石夕)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 827, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24045
• Dae Jaweon: page 1242, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2418, character 2
• Unihan data for U+77FD

Chinese

trad.		矽
simp. #		矽

Chemical element
Si
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Next: 磷 (lín) (P)

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) : semantic 石 (“stone”) + phonetic 夕 (xī).

Etymology

From English silicon. Coined by Chinese scientist Xu Shou in 1871. The term is dated in Mainland China as it is homophonous to 硒 (xī) "selenium" and 錫／锡 (xī) "tin".

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī, xì

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ, ㄒㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zik⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih⁷
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sia̍k / se̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xì
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sì
    • Wade–Giles: hsi⁴
    • Yale: syì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shih
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zik⁶
    • Yale: jihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁷
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ⁴/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁷
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: sia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siak̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siak̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se̍k
    • Tâi-lô: si̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sek
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɪk̚¹²¹/

Note: se̍k - literary.

Definitions

矽

2. (chemistry, chiefly Taiwan and Hong Kong, dated in Mainland China) silicon [from 1871]

   Synonym: 硅 (guī) (Mainland China)

Compounds

• 矽土
• 矽晶片
• 矽烷 (xīwán)
• 矽砂
• 矽碳棒
• 矽粉病
• 矽線石 / 矽线石
• 矽肺 (xīfèi)
• 矽肺症
• 矽藻
• 矽藻土
• 矽谷 (Xīgǔ)
• 矽質岩 / 矽质岩
• 矽酸 (xīsuān)
• 矽酸鹽 / 矽酸盐 (xīsuānyán)
• 矽鋼 / 矽钢
• 矽鎂層 / 矽镁层
• 綠色矽島 / 绿色矽岛
• 肺塵矽症 / 肺尘矽症

References

• “矽”, 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), “矽”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 250.

Korean

Hanja

矽 • (seok) (hangeul 석, revised seok, McCune–Reischauer sŏk, Yale sek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

矽: Hán Việt readings: tịch

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References

• Nom Foundation