氧
oxygen (chemistry)
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Dict coverage rank #823 U+6C27
How 氧 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
气 (semantic, “gas”) + 羊 (phonetic, yáng)
How to remember it
oxygen · Heisig RSH #2834
气 air + 羊 sheep
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 羊
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 羊 (yáng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 羊 sound component | yáng | sheep, goat |
| 洋 | yáng | sea, ocean; western, foreign |
| 养 | yǎng | to raise, to rear, to bring up; to support |
| 样 | yàng | form, pattern, shape, style |
| 鲜 | xiān | fresh; delicious; attractive |
| 祥 | xiáng | happiness, good fortune; auspicious |
| 痒 | yǎng | to itch; to tickle |
| 详 | xiáng | complete, detailed, thorough |
| 翔 | xiáng | to soar, to hover, to glide |
| 羌 | qiāng | Qiang nationality; surname |
| 恙 | yàng | illness, sickness; indisposition |
| 羟 | qiǎng | hydroxide |
| 佯 | yáng | to pretend, to feign; false, deceitful |
| 徉 | yáng | to wander, to stray, to roam; to hesitate |
| 烊 | yáng | to smelt; to close for the night |
| 庠 | xiáng | village school; teach |
| 羰 | tāng | carbonyl group |
| 蛘 | yáng | rice weevil |
Words containing 氧
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 二氧化物 | èr yǎng huà wù | dioxide |
| 无氧运动 | wú yǎng yùn dòng | anaerobic exercise |
| 有氧运动 | yǒu yǎng yùn dòng | aerobics |
| 过氧化物 | guò yǎng huà wù | peroxide |
| 氧化物 | yǎng huà wù | oxide |
| 氧化亚铁 | yǎng huà yà tiě | iron(II) oxide; ferrous oxide |
| 氧合器 | yǎng hé qì | oxygenator |
| 制氧机 | zhì yǎng jī | oxygen concentrator |
| 过氧化 | guò yǎng huà | peroxide |
| 氧原子 | yǎng yuán zǐ | oxygen atom |
| 甲氧西林 | jiǎ yǎng xī lín | methicillin (a semisynthetic penicillin) (loanword) |
| 双氧水 | shuāng yǎng shuǐ | hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) solution |
| 血氧量 | xuè yǎng liàng | blood oxygen level |
| 活性氧类 | huó xìng yǎng lèi | activated oxygen species (AOS) |
| 无氧 | wú yǎng | anaerobic |
| 氧化剂 | yǎng huà jì | oxidant; oxidizing agent |
| 氧化 | yǎng huà | to oxidize |
| 高压氧 | gāo yā yǎng | hyperbaric oxygen; hyperbaric oxygenation; also abbr. for 高壓氧治療|高压氧治疗[gao1 ya1 yang3 zhi4 … |
| 氧气 | yǎng qì | oxygen |
| 去氧核糖核酸 | qù yǎng hé táng hé suān | deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA |