U+7094 "炔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7094 "炔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in East Asian languages, consisting of the radical for fire (火) combined with a phonetic component, and it is pronounced as "quē" in Mandarin. It denotes acetylene, a chemical compound (C2H2) known as a fuel gas used in welding and cutting metals, and it also appears in the term "炔烃" which refers to the alkyne group in organic chemistry, a class of hydrocarbons with a triple carbon-carbon bond. Historically and linguistically, this character is an example of a modern-coined character, created in the 20th century to represent newly introduced scientific concepts, specifically from Western chemistry, and it remains in use today in technical and formal contexts.