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| Processed by: | richwarm (2013-09-07 00:01:35 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 48685 - submitted by 'dylanfrinkled123' >> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%85%A1 It says this character means mercury under "Han character". ------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Wenlin says: 兡 hectogram (100 grams) (Unihan:) “hg” hg is the abbreviation for hectogram. The symbol for mercury is Hg. Web ~ <<The symbol Hg is from the Latinised Greek phrase: Hydrargyrum, from "hydr-" meaning watery or runny and "argyros" meaning silver.>> What are the chances that there is a Chinese character (兡) that just happens to mean both hg and Hg (both hectogram and hydrargyrum)? Looks like Wiktionary made another mistake, this time confusing "hg" with "Hg". I'll be most intrigued if you can show that 兡 has both meanings, but all you have done here is quote an unreliable source (the one that said 亓=table). Write to Wiktionary about their errors, not to us. Also, please send us words that are useful – words that people will actually come across in reading sentences written in Chinese (unlike 兡 and 啲咑 and 亓). It seems that you are reading dictionaries rather than coherent Chinese sentences and texts. We are interested in what you find in the course of reading meaningful Chinese text. We aren't very interested in receiving lots of submissions about rare characters found by scanning through dictionaries. 兡 is so rare that it's not even given an entry in many dictionaries. Can you find webpages where someone uses 兡 in a sentence? Don't waste our time with submissions that aren't going to be useful to people in helping them understand written or spoken Chinese. |
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# - 兡 兡 [bai3] /hectogram/ # + 兡 兡 [bai3] /hectogram/mercury (chemistry)/see also 汞/ |