yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Mendelevium Md · 101

mén

solid metal · period 7 · f-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+
phonetic
=
mén

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Mendelevium

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Unicode

U+9494 in CJK Unified Ideographs

Element discovered 1955.