硝

硝 U+785D, 硝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-785D ← 硜 [U+785C] CJK Unified Ideographs 硞 → [U+785E]

Translingual

Han character

Stroke order

硝 (Kangxi radical 112, 石いし+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一いち口火くちび月がつ (MRFB), four-corner 1962₇, composition ⿰石いし肖あやか)

1. saltpeter, niter
2. to tan

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 830, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24201
• Dae Jaweon: page 1246, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2433, character 4
• Unihan data for U+785D

Chinese

trad.		硝
simp. #		硝

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (肖あやか) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
梢こずえ	*sreːw
捎	*sreːw, *sew
筲	*sreːw
鞘さや	*sreːw, *slewɢs
艄	*sreːw
蛸だこ	*sreːw, *sew
髾	*sreːw
輎	*sreːw
旓	*sreːw
弰	*sreːw
鮹たこ	*sreːw, *sew
綃	*sreːw, *sew
颵	*sreːw
莦	*sreːw, *sew
娋	*sreːw, *sreːws
稍やや	*sreːws
哨	*sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
揱	*sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
潲	*sreːws
睄	*sreːws
悄	*sʰewʔ
俏	*sʰews
峭	*sʰews
陗	*sʰews
帩	*sʰews
誚	*zews
消けし	*sew
宵よい	*sew
霄	*sew
硝	*sew
銷	*sew
逍	*sew
魈	*sew
痟	*slew
焇	*sew
肖あやか	*slew, *slews
韒	*slewɢs
趙ちょう	*l'ewʔ
箾	*seːw, *sleːw
踃	*seːw
削そぎ	*slewɢ
矟	*sreːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *sew) : semantic 石いし (“stone”) + phonetic 肖あやか (OC *slew, *slews)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāo (xiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siau

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siou¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siao
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao¹
    • Yale: syāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
    • Palladius: сяо (sjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: siu¹
    • Yale: sīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siau
    • Tâi-lô: siau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siaw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siau³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siau⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siou¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siou
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siou³³/

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• Middle Chinese: sjew

Rime
Character	硝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲こえ)	心しん (16)
Final (韻いん)	宵よい (91)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open
Division (等ひとし)	III
Fanqie	相そう邀切きり
Baxter	sjew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siaw/
Li Rong	/siɛu/
Wang Li	/sĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	siu1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sew/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	硝
Reading #	1/1
No.	13742
Phonetic component	肖あやか
Rime group	宵よい
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	宵よい
Old Chinese	/*sew/

Definitions

硝

1. (inorganic chemistry) saltpetre, niter
2. to tan

Compounds

• 亞あ硝酸しょうさん／亚硝酸しょうさん (yàxiāosuān)
• 亞あ硝酸鹽しょうさんえん／亚硝酸しょうさん盐 (yàxiāosuānyán)
• 智さとし利とぎ硝石しょうせき (zhìlì xiāoshí)
• 朴ほお硝 (pòxiāo)
• 焰硝
• 甲きのえ硝唑 (jiǎxiāozuò)
• 皮かわ硝 (píxiāo)
• 硝化しょうか (xiāohuà)
• 硝化しょうか作用さよう
• 硝化しょうか甘あま油あぶら (xiāohuàgānyóu)
• 硝基 (xiāojī)
• 硝基苯 (xiāojīběn)
• 硝煙彈雨しょうえんだんう／硝烟弹雨
• 硝石しょうせき (xiāoshí)
• 硝酸しょうさん (xiāosuān)
• 硝鹽／硝盐
• 老ろう走はし硝
• 芒すすき硝 (mángxiāo)
• 薔薇ばら硝／蔷薇硝
• 鹽しお硝／盐硝

 

References

• “硝”, in 漢語かんご多功たこう能のう字じ庫こ (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港ほんこん中ちゅう文ぶん大學だいがく (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai	硝
Kyūjitai	硝󠄁 硝+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	硝󠄃 硝+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

硝

(Jōyō kanji)

1. saltpeter, niter, the mineral form of potassium nitrate (KNO₃).

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}

Compounds

Compounds

• 硝子がらす(ガラス) (garasu), 硝子がらす(しょうし) (shōshi): glass
• 硝安(しょうあん) (shōan): ammonium nitrate
• 硝酸しょうさん(しょうさん) (shōsan): nitric acid
• 硝石しょうせき(しょうせき) (shōseki): saltpetre

Korean

Hanja

硝 • (cho) (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

硝: Hán Việt readings: tiêu

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Compounds

Compounds

• 硝石しょうせき (tiêu thạch)