yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
镉

Cadmium Cd · 48

gé

solid metal · period 5, group 12 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+
鬲 phonetic
=
镉 gé

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Cadmium

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 铬 gè Chromium, 鿔 gē Copernicium.

Unicode

U+9549 in CJK Unified Ideographs