# 氯

| 氯 | U+6C2F, &#27695; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C2F |
| ← 氮 [U+6C2E] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 氰 → [U+6C30] |

## Translingual
### Han character

氯 (Kangxi radical 84, 气+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人弓弓一水 (ONNME) or 人弓女弓水 (ONVNE), four-corner 8091$_7$, composition ⿹气彔 or ⿹气录)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 600, character 1
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17072
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2013, character 7
* Unihan data for U+6C2F

## Chinese

* 氯

### Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 气 (“gas”) + phonetic 彔. 彔 is also a reduced form of 綠 (“green”), serving as a semantic component.

### Etymology

From 綠氣／绿气 (“green gas”) in the 19th century, which is a calque of English chlorine, referring to the colour of chlorine gas.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lǜ, lù (lü$^4$, lu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˋ, ㄌㄨˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): luk$^6$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): liu̍k
    (Meixian, Guangdong): liug$^6$
* Eastern Min (BUC): lṳ̆k
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): lio̍k / lia̍k / le̍k
    (Teochew, Peng'im): lêg$^8$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^8$loq
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lǜ
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lyù
*** Wade–Giles: lü$^4$
*** Yale: lyù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liuh
*** Palladius: люй (ljuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /ly⁵¹/
** (Standard Chinese, variant)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lù
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lù
*** Wade–Giles: lu$^4$
*** Yale: lù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luh
*** Palladius: лу (lu)
*** Sinological IPA : /lu⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: luk$^6$
*** Yale: luhk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: luk$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lug$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /lʊk̚²/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: liu̍k
*** Hakka Romanization System: liug
*** Hagfa Pinyim: liug$^6$
*** Sinological IPA: /li̯uk̚⁵/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: liug$^6$
*** Sinological IPA: /liʊk̚⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: lṳ̆k
*** Sinological IPA : /l̃yʔ⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lio̍k
*** Tâi-lô: lio̍k
*** Phofsit Daibuun: liok
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /liɔk̚²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɔk̚¹²¹/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /liɔk̚⁴/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lia̍k
*** Tâi-lô: lia̍k
*** Phofsit Daibuun: liak
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /liak̚²⁴/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: le̍k
*** Tâi-lô: li̍k
*** Phofsit Daibuun: lek
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /liɪk̚⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪk̚¹²¹/
* lio̍k - literary;
* lia̍k/le̍k - vernacular.

### Definitions

氯
* (chemistry) chlorine
* chlorine gas

#### Synonyms

* (chlorine): (rare) 鹽素／盐素 (yánsù)

### Compounds

* 三氯乙烷
* 三氯乙烯 (sānlǜyǐxī)
* 三氯甲烷 (sānlǜjiǎwán)
* 二氯甲烷 (èrlǜjiǎwán)
* 亞硝醯氯／亚硝醯氯 (yàxiāoxīlǜ)
* 亞硝醯氯／亚硝醯氯 (yàxiāoxīlǜ)
* 加氯量
* 可氯丹 (kělǜdān)
* 四氯化碳 (sìlǜhuàtàn)
* 多氯聯苯／多氯联苯 (duōlǜliánběn)
* 氯丁橡膠／氯丁橡胶
* 氯丹 (lǜdān)
* 氯乙烯 (lǜyǐxī)
* 氯乙烷 (lǜyǐwán)
* 氯仿 (lǜfǎng)
* 氯化 (lǜhuà)
* 氯化氫／氯化氢 (lǜhuàqīng)
* 氯化物 (lǜhuàwù)
* 氯化鈉／氯化钠 (lǜhuànà)
* 氯化鈣／氯化钙 (lǜhuàgài)
* 氯化鉀／氯化钾 (lǜhuàjiǎ)
* 氯化銀／氯化银 (lǜhuàyín)
* 氯化銨／氯化铵 (lǜhuà'ǎn)
* 氯化鋅／氯化锌 (lǜhuàxīn)
* 氯化鎂／氯化镁 (lǜhuàměi)
* 氯原酸
* 氯氣／氯气 (lǜqì)
* 氯氣中毒／氯气中毒
* 氯水
* 氯甲烷 (lǜjiǎwán)
* 氯絲菌素／氯丝菌素
* 氯綸／氯纶
* 氯胺 (lǜ'àn)
* 氯胺酮 (lǜ'àntóng)
* 氯酸 (lǜsuān)
* 氯醛
* 氯黴素／氯霉素 (lǜméisù)
* 過氯酸／过氯酸 (guòlǜsuān)
* 雙氯芬酸／双氯芬酸 (shuānglǜfēnsuān)
* 高氯酸 (gāolǜsuān)

### References

* “氯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Korean
### Hanja

氯 (eum 록 (rok))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

氯: Hán Nôm readings: lục
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