氦 (hài): helium (chemistry)
氦 (hài) is a Chinese character meaning “helium (chemistry).” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 气 (semantic) and 亥 (phonetic). It ranks #3820 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 氦 gas. Its radical form 气 (steam) appears in many related characters such as 气 (qì, gas), 氛 (fēn, miasma), 氧 (yǎng, oxygen (chemistry)).
Definitions
- helium (chemistry)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
氦 appears in 2 compound words: 100 as the first character, 0 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 氦 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
第四代核电另一项突破是高温气冷堆,采用氦气代替水来作为冷却剂。
dì sì dài hé diàn lìng yī xiàng tū pò shì gāo wēn qì lěng duī , cǎi yòng hài qì dài tì shuǐ lái zuò wéi lěng què jì .
Another breakthrough in fourth-generation nuclear power is the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor, which uses helium instead of water as a coolant.
随着尘埃逐渐消散,研究团队终于确认,该系统中存在一颗氦星。
suí zhe chén āi zhú jiàn xiāo sàn , yán jiū tuán duì zhōng yú què rèn , gāi xì tǒng zhōng cún zài yī kē hài xīng .
As the dust gradually cleared, the research team finally confirmed the presence of a helium star in the system.
Character Family
气 Radical Family — Characters sharing the steam radical
Homophones — Characters pronounced hài
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