氮 (dàn): nitrogen (chemistry)
氮 (dàn) is a Chinese character meaning “nitrogen (chemistry).” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 气 (semantic) and 炎 (phonetic). It ranks #3124 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 氮 gas. Its radical form 气 (steam) appears in many related characters such as 气 (qì, gas), 氛 (fēn, miasma), 氧 (yǎng, oxygen (chemistry)).
Definitions
- nitrogen (chemistry)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 液氮noun | yè dàn | liquid nitrogen |
| 氮气noun | dàn qì | nitrogen |
| 氮氧化物 | dàn yǎng huà wù | nitrogen oxide |
| 有机氮 | yǒu jī dàn | organic nitrogen |
| 一氧化二氮noun | yī yǎng huà èr dàn | nitrous oxide N2O |
| 一氧化氮noun | yī yǎng huà dàn | nitric oxide |
| 二氧化氮noun | èr yǎng huà dàn | nitrogen dioxide |
| 氮芥气 | dàn jiè qì | nitrogen mustard |
| 固氮 | gù dàn | nitrogen fixation |
| 苯二氮䓬 | běn èr dàn zhuó | (organic chemistry, pharmacology) benzodiazepine |
| 氮化镓 | dàn huà jiā | gallium nitride (GaN) |
| 氮泵 | dàn bèng | pre-workout (supplement) |
| 氮烯 | dàn xī | nitrene (chemistry) |
氮 appears in 13 compound words: 46 as the first character, 46 as the last, and 8 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Example Sentences
团队发现,循环电场持续驱动氮空位重新分布、局域团聚和长程迁移。
tuán duì fā xiàn , xún huán diàn chǎng chí xù qū dòng dàn kōng wèi chóng xīn fēn bù , jú yù tuán jù hé cháng chéng qiān yí .
The team found that the cyclic electric field continuously drives the redistribution, localized aggregation, and long-range migration of nitrogen vacancies.
充电头这个品类卷了这么多年,从体积卷到氮化镓,现在开始卷“屏幕”了。
chōng diàn tóu zhè gè pǐn lèi juǎn le zhè me duō nián , cóng tǐ jī juǎn dào dàn huà jiā , xiàn zài kāi shǐ juǎn píng mù le .
The charger market has been in a race to outdo each other for years—from size to gallium nitride—and now the competition has shifted to “displays.”
将电池在充满氮气的手套箱中储存 300 天后,其效率仍保留了初始值的约 96%。
jiāng diàn chí zài chōng mǎn dàn qì de shǒu tào xiāng zhōng chǔ cún 3 0 0 tiān hòu , qí xiào lǜ réng bǎo liú le chū shǐ zhí de yuē 9 6 .
After storing the battery for 300 days in a glove box filled with nitrogen, its efficiency remained at approximately 96% of its initial value.
根据碳氮硫稳定同位素的分析,先民食谱极为丰富,以粟黍农业为主,也摄入一定动物蛋白。
gēn jù tàn dàn liú wěn dìng tóng wèi sù de fēn xī , xiān mín shí pǔ jí wéi fēng fù , yǐ sù 黍 nóng yè wéi zhǔ , yě shè rù yī dìng dòng wù dàn bái .
According to analyses of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur stable isotopes, the diet of our ancestors was extremely diverse, centered on millet and sorghum agriculture, and included a certain amount of animal protein.
鼻腔和鼻窦还会产生少量一氧化氮,并随吸气进入呼吸道,可能参与局部气道和肺血流的调节。
bí qiāng hé bí dòu hái huì chǎn shēng shǎo liàng yī yǎng huà dàn , bìng suí xī qì jìn rù hū xī dào , kě néng cān yǔ jú bù qì dào hé fèi xiě liú de diào jié .
The nasal cavity and sinuses also produce small amounts of nitric oxide, which enters the respiratory tract during inhalation and may play a role in regulating local airway and pulmonary blood flow.
Character Family
气 Radical Family — Characters sharing the steam radical
Homophones — Characters pronounced dàn
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