yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Californium Cf · 98

kāi

solid metal · period 7 · f-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+
phonetic
=
kāi

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Californium

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Unicode

U+950E in CJK Unified Ideographs

Element discovered 1950.