氧 (yǎng): oxygen (chemistry)
氧 (yǎng) is a Chinese character meaning “oxygen (chemistry).” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 气 (semantic) and 羊 (phonetic). It ranks #1844 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 氧 gas. Its radical form 气 (steam) appears in many related characters such as 气 (qì, gas), 氛 (fēn, miasma).
Definitions
- oxygen (chemistry)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 氧
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 氧化verb | yǎng huà | to oxidize |
| 一氧化碳noun | yī yǎng huà tàn | carbon monoxide CO |
| 缺氧verb | quē yǎng | lacking oxygen |
| 氢氧化钠noun | qīng yǎng huà nà | sodium hydroxide NaOH |
| 臭氧层noun | chòu yǎng céng | ozone layer |
| 氧化剂noun | yǎng huà jì | oxidant |
| 臭氧noun | chòu yǎng | ozone (O₃) |
| 高压氧 | gāo yā yǎng | hyperbaric oxygen |
| 脱氧noun | tuō yǎng | deoxidation |
| 氧化铝noun | yǎng huà lǚ | aluminum oxide |
| 过氧化氢noun | guò yǎng huà qīng | hydrogen peroxide H2O2 |
| 二氧化硫noun | èr yǎng huà liú | sulfur dioxide SO2 |
| 二氧化硅noun | èr yǎng huà guī | silicon dioxide (SiO2) |
| 氧化物noun | yǎng huà wù | oxide |
| 双氧水noun | shuāng yǎng shuǐ | hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) solution |
氧 appears in 100 compound words: 21 as the first character, 12 as the last, and 67 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 氧 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (10)
Example Sentences
氧字在日常生活中使用频率较低。
yǎng zì zài rì cháng shēng huó zhōng shǐ yòng pín lǜ jiào dī .
The character for oxygen is used less frequently in daily life.
...2.9亿元建设20万吨/年全酸性流化牀过氧化氢项目
. . . 2 . 9 yì yuán jiàn shè 2 0 wàn dūn nián quán suān xìng liú huà 牀 guò yǎng huà qīng xiàng mù
...a 290 million yuan project to build a 200,000-ton-per-year fully acidic fluidized-bed hydrogen peroxide facility
...除甲醛吗?选择安全的空气净化器,别被“臭氧”坑了
. . . chú jiǎ 醛 ma ? xuǎn zé ān quán de kōng qì jìng huà qì , bié bèi chòu yǎng kēng le
...Does it remove formaldehyde? Choose a safe air purifier—don’t fall for the “ozone” scam
SpaceX 等液氧甲烷火箭爆炸到底有多可怕?美国宇航局正着...
S p a c e X děng yè yǎng jiǎ 烷 huǒ jiàn bào zhà dào de yǒu duō kě pà ? měi guó yǔ háng jú zhèng zhe . . .
Just how terrifying are explosions involving liquid oxygen and methane rockets like those used by SpaceX? NASA is currently...
两个男生做下肢运动小腹变大要加有氧吗?控制体脂率是关键吗
liǎng gè nán shēng zuò xià zhī yùn dòng xiǎo fù biàn dà yāo jiā yǒu yǎng ma ? kòng zhì tǐ zhī lǜ shì guān jiàn ma
Two guys are doing lower-body exercises and their stomachs are getting bigger—should they add cardio? Is controlling body fat percentage the key?
研究:有氧运动可治疗轻度焦虑症
yán jiū : yǒu yǎng yùn dòng kě zhì liáo qīng dù jiāo lǜ zhèng
Study: Aerobic exercise treats mild anxiety
铁和氧都是化学元素。
Tiě hé yǎng dōu shì huàxuéyuánsù.
Iron and oxygen are elements.
树木排出氧气，吸收二氧化碳。
Shùmù páichū yǎngqì, xīshōu èryǎnghuàtàn.
Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.
平流层的臭氧会吸收紫外线。
Píngliúcéng de chòuyǎng huì xīshōu zǐwàixiàn.
The ozone in the stratosphere absorbs ultraviolet radiation.
我们缺氧时就会打哈欠。
Wǒmen quēyǎng shí jiù huì dǎ hāqian.
We yawn when we are short of oxygen.
Character Family
气 Radical Family — Characters sharing the steam radical
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