Gold Au · 79
solid metal · period 6, group 11 · d-block
Anatomy
金 is the radical itself: jīn, “metal”. All other metal characters are built on it.
Ancient name. Known in China long before modern chemistry; the old character was kept. Named in ancient China
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Unicode
U+91D1 in CJK Unified Ideographs