萘

萘 U+8418, 萘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8418 ← 萗 [U+8417] CJK Unified Ideographs 萙 → [U+8419]

Translingual

Han character

萘 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿大一火 (TKMF), four-corner 4490, composition ⿱艹奈)

Derived characters

• 𬄠

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1042, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31329
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3231, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8418

Chinese

trad.		萘
simp. #		萘

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• 萘

Etymology

Borrowed from English naphthalene.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nài (nai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): noi⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): nai⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nài
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nài
    • Wade–Giles: nai⁴
    • Yale: nài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nay
    • Palladius: най (naj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: noi⁶
    • Yale: noih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: noi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: noi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɔːi̯²²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: nai⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nai²¹/

Definitions

萘

1. (organic chemistry) naphthalene

Compounds

• 萘啶 (nàidìng)
• 萘普生 (nàipǔshēng)

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “萘”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 162.