yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Germanium Ge · 32

zhě

solid metal · period 4, group 14 · p-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+
phonetic
=
zhě

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Germanium

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Unicode

U+9517 in CJK Unified Ideographs