硼
Boron B · 5
solid non-metal · period 2, group 13 · p-block
Anatomy
石 radical 石 shí
stone → solid non-metal
+ stone → solid non-metal
朋 phonetic
= 硼 péng
Ancient name. Known in China long before modern chemistry; the old character was kept. Known since antiquity from borax (硼砂); character standardized from earlier usage
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Unicode
U+787C in CJK Unified Ideographs