氧
Oxygen O · 8
gas · period 2, group 16 · p-block
Anatomy
气 radical 气 qì
gas → gas
+ gas → gas
羊 sound and meaning
= 氧 yǎng
Meaning-based. The second half also names a property of the element. Refers to 养 “nourishing”, the nourishing element for life and combustion
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Unicode
U+6C27 in CJK Unified Ideographs