yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Bromine Br · 35

xiù

liquid · period 4, group 17 · p-block

Anatomy

radical shuǐ
water → liquid
+
phonetic
=
xiù

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. “stinky”, Gr. brómos (stench)

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Unicode

U+6EB4 in CJK Unified Ideographs