steam

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph depicting vapor, breath, or odor rising upward. In oracle-bone and ancient seal scripts, it was drawn as flowing or wavy strokes to represent the movement and diffusion of gaseous matter.

Mnemonic: Remember the steam radical as wavy wisps of vapor curling upward into the air.

• 氙xiān🔊

  xenon (chemistry)

  7 strokes

• 氚chuān🔊

  (chemistry) tritium

  7 strokes

• 氛fēn🔊

  miasma

  8 strokes

• 氜yáng🔊

  old variant of 陽|阳[yang2]

  8 strokes

• 氝nèi🔊

  neon Ne (chemistry) (now written 氖[nai3])

  8 strokes

• 氟fú🔊

  fluorine (chemistry)

  9 strokes

• 氢qīng🔊

  hydrogen (chemistry)

  9 strokes

• 氠shēn🔊

  xenon (chemistry) (old)

  9 strokes

• 氡dōng🔊

  radon (chemistry)

  9 strokes

• 气qì🔊

  gas; air

  HSK 2

  10 strokes

• 氨ān🔊

  ammonia

  10 strokes

• 氧yǎng🔊

  oxygen (chemistry)

  HSK 7

  10 strokes

• 氦hài🔊

  helium (chemistry)

  10 strokes

• 氤yīn🔊

  used in 氤氳|氤氲[yin1 yun1]

  10 strokes

• 氥xī🔊

  xenon (chemistry) (old)

  10 strokes

• 氩yà🔊

  argon (chemistry)

  10 strokes