磺 (huáng): sulfur (bound morpheme)

Meanings

1 sulfur (bound morpheme)
2 sulfur (used in 硫磺)

Characters

磺

huáng

sulfur (bound morpheme)

Examples

空气中弥漫着硫磺味。

Kōngqì zhōng mímàn zhe liúhuáng wèi.

The air was filled with the smell of sulfur.

磺胺类药物用于抗菌。

Huáng'ān lèi yàowù yòngyú kàngjūn.

Sulfonamide drugs are used as antibacterials.

Tips

usage

Almost never stands alone. You'll meet it in 硫磺 (sulfur), 磺胺 (sulfonamide), and the technical 磺酸 (sulfonic acid). The 石 radical signals a mineral / inorganic substance.

Components

radical

石 shí

stone; mineral

Stone radical on the left marks 磺 as a mineral — sulfur was historically mined as yellow rock from volcanic deposits. Same radical drives 矿 (ore), 砂 (sand), 碳 (carbon), 硫 (sulfur — pairs with 磺 in 硫磺). Stone radical is the standard for elemental and mineral chars.

phonetic

黄 huáng

yellow

黄 supplies the sound directly — huáng with matching tone — and adds strong semantic reinforcement: sulfur is the bright yellow mineral. This is one of the cleanest phono-semantic pairs in chemistry vocabulary, both halves transparently doing their job.