yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Hydrogen H · 1

qīng

gas · period 1, group 1 · s-block

Anatomy

radical
gas → gas
+
sound and meaning
=
qīng

Meaning-based. The second half also names a property of the element. Refers to 轻 “light-weight”, the lightest element

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Unicode

U+6C22 in CJK Unified Ideographs