yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Copper Cu · 29

tóng

solid metal · period 4, group 11 · d-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+
phonetic
=
tóng

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+94DC in CJK Unified Ideographs