# 矽

| 矽 | U+77FD, &#30717; 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 1762$_0$, 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

* 矽

### 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): zik$^6$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih$^7$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sia̍k / se̍k
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xī
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: si
*** Wade–Giles: hsi$^1$
*** Yale: syī
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
*** Palladius: си (si)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi⁵⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xì
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sì
*** Wade–Giles: hsi$^4$
*** Yale: syì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shih
*** Palladius: си (si)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zik$^6$
*** Yale: jihk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzik$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: jig$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sɪk̚²/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sih$^7$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiʔ⁴/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sih$^7$
*** Sinological IPA : /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/

### Definitions

矽
* (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)‎, 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