汞
Mercury Hg · 80
liquid · period 6, group 12 · d-block
Anatomy
氵 radical 水 shuǐ
water → liquid
+ water → liquid
工 phonetic
= 汞 gǒng
Ancient name. Known in China long before modern chemistry; the old character was kept. Known since ancient times; etymology debated, possibly from 工 (functional)
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Unicode
U+6C5E in CJK Unified Ideographs