水銀

Etymology
Compare the etymologies of 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) mercury; quicksilver
 * 2)  moon
 * 3)  glob; drop of water
 * 1)  glob; drop of water

Etymology 1
From compound. Compare modern 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  mercury; quicksilver

Derived terms

 * : mercury pollution, mercury contamination
 * : a mercury thermometer
 * : a mercury barometer
 * : a mercury diffusion pump
 * : a mercury thermometer
 * : a mercury arc lamp
 * : a hard mercury-based ointment or plaster
 * : a mercurial (drug), a mercury-based fungicide
 * : a mercury-arc valve
 * : a mercury barometer
 * : mercury poisoning
 * : mercury in a thermometer, as a metaphor for the temperature
 * : a mercury battery
 * : a mercury lamp, a mercury-vapor lamp
 * : a soft mercury-based ointment or plaster
 * : a mercury-based agrichemical
 * : a kind of white face powder made from mercury, used in ancient times

Noun

 * 1) mercury

Etymology 3
From. Compound of. Appears in the Wamyō Ruijushō Japanese dictionary of 938 CE as mizukane, suggesting that the shift to rendaku is more recent.

Obsolete in modern Japanese.

Noun

 * 1)  mercury; quicksilver

Usage notes
The mizugane reading is largely obsolete in modern Japanese; suigin is the standard reading.

Derived terms

 * : a kind of white face powder made from mercury, used in ancient times