钾

Potassium K · 19

jiǎ

solid metal · period 4, group 1 · s-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal

甲 phonetic

钾 jiǎ

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Potassium (from Kalium, used to be ka; likely /g/ → /j/ palatalization in Chinese)

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 镓 jiā Gallium.

Unicode

U+94BE in CJK Unified Ideographs