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氧

yǎng

HSK 6 Character

What 氧 means

1. oxygen (chemistry)

Example sentences

• 爱就像氧气。
  ài jiù xiàng yǎngqì.
  Love is like oxygen.
• 氧和氢组成了水。
  Yǎng hé qīng zǔchéng le shuǐ.
  Water is made up of oxygen and hydrogen.
• 水是由氢和氧组成的。
  Shuǐ shì yóu qīng hé yǎng zǔchéng de.
  Water consists of hydrogen and oxygen.
• 铁和氧都是化学元素。
  Iron and oxygen are elements.
• 我们缺氧时就会打哈欠。
  We yawn when we are short of oxygen.
• 平流层的臭氧会吸收紫外线。
  The ozone in the stratosphere absorbs ultraviolet radiation.

Words starting with 氧

• 氧气yǎng qìoxygen
• 氧化yǎng huàto oxidize
• 氧基yǎng jīalkoxy (chemistry)
• 氧化剂yǎng huà jìoxidant; oxidizing agent
• 氧化物yǎng huà wùoxide
• 氧原子yǎng yuán zǐoxygen atom
• 氧合器yǎng hé qìoxygenator
• 氧效应yǎng xiào yìngoxygen effect
• 氧割yǎng gēto cut using oxyacetylene torch
• 氧化铝yǎng huà lǚaluminum oxide
• 氧化罐yǎng huà guànHopcalite canister; Hopcalite cartridge
• 氧化汞yǎng huà gǒngmercuric oxide (HgO)
• 氧化铀yǎng huà yóuuranium oxide
• 氧化钙yǎng huà gàicalcium oxide, CaO; (slang) (used as a substitute for 肏
• 氧化锌yǎng huà xīnzinc oxide
• 氧化镁yǎng huà měimagnesium oxide MgO
• 氧乙炔yǎng yǐ quēoxyacetylene
• 氧乙炔炬yǎng yǐ quē jùan oxyacetylene torch
• 氧乙炔焊yǎng yǐ quē hànoxyacetylene welding
• 氧乙炔焊炬yǎng yǐ quē hàn jùoxyacetylene torch

Words containing 氧

• 二氧化碳èr yǎng huà tàncarbon dioxide CO2
• 缺氧quē yǎnglacking oxygen; anaerobic
• 二氧化硫èr yǎng huà liúsulfur dioxide SO2
• 吸氧xī yǎngto breathe; to absorb oxygen
• 充氧chōng yǎngto oxygenate; to provide oxygen complement
• 好氧hào yǎngaerobic
• 无氧wú yǎnganaerobic
• 脱氧tuō yǎngdeoxidation
• 过氧guò yǎngperoxy-; peroxide (chemistry)
• 大氧吧dà yǎng bāsource of oxygen (of forests and nature reserves); (cliché) lungs of the planet
• 有氧操yǒu yǎng cāoaerobics
• 缺氧症quē yǎng zhènganoxia
• 血氧量xuè yǎng liàngblood oxygen level
• 制氧机zhì yǎng jīoxygen concentrator
• 过氧化guò yǎng huàperoxide
• 双氧水shuāng yǎng shuǐhydrogen peroxide (H2O2) solution
• 高压氧gāo yā yǎnghyperbaric oxygen; hyperbaric oxygenation; also abbr. for 高压氧治疗
• 抗氧化剂kàng yǎng huà jìantioxidant
• 有氧运动yǒu yǎng yùn dòngaerobics
• 活性氧类huó xìng yǎng lèiactivated oxygen species (AOS)
• 血氧含量xuè yǎng hán liàngblood oxygen level
• 过氧化物guò yǎng huà wùperoxide
• 甲氧基jiǎ yǎng jīmethoxy (chemistry)
• 化学需氧量huà xué xū yǎng liàng(environmental science) chemical oxygen demand; COD

Characters built on 羊

These share the phonetic component 羊 (yáng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 样yàngmanner; pattern; way
• 洋yángocean; vast; foreign
• 痒yǎngto itch; to tickle
• 烊yángmolten; smelt
• 徉yángto walk back and forth
• 佯yángto feign; to pretend
• 羰tāngcarbonyl (radical)
• 蛘yánga weevil found in rice etc

Characters that look like 氧

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 氟fúfluorine (chemistry)
• 氨ānammonia
• 栗lì(literary) cold; chilly; (bound form) to tremble with fear
• 氦hàihelium (chemistry)
• 氩yàargon (chemistry)
• 氡dōngradon (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read yǎng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 养to raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets)
• 痒to itch; to tickle
• 仰to face upward; to look up; to admire
• 炴firelight; blaze
• 坱(literary) dust; (literary) vast and all-pervading
• 飬old variant of 养