氖 (nǎi): neon (chemical element, symbol…

Meanings

氖气通电时发出橙红色的光。

Nǎi qì tōng diàn shí fāchū chénghóngsè de guāng.

Neon glows orange-red when an electric current passes through it.

氖是一种无色无味的惰性气体。

Nǎi shì yì zhǒng wúsè wúwèi de duòxìng qìtǐ.

Neon is a colorless, odorless inert gas.

memory

All gaseous elements take the gas radical 气 wrapped around a phonetic. Here it wraps 乃 for the sound nǎi, gas + nǎi = neon.

radical

气 qì

gas; air

The gas radical 气 wraps the top and right; every gaseous chemical element is written with it, instantly signalling 'a gas'.

phonetic

乃 nǎi

then; thus

乃 sits inside the gas radical and gives the sound nǎi; it carries no meaning, chosen only to approximate 'neon'.

氖 nǎi