矽

矽	U+77FD, 矽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-77FD

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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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

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

(chemistry, chiefly Taiwan and Hong Kong, dated in Mainland China) silicon [from 1871]
Synonym: 硅 (guī) (Mainland China)

Compounds

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

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