礆 alkaline Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents No origin information available for this character yet. Sources Readings & variants Unicode 硷 jiǎn alkaline Simplified Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 佥 represents the sound. Simplified form of 礆. Components 石 石 Meaning component shí stone 佥 佥 Sound component qiān together Sources Readings & variants Unicode