yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Sodium Na · 11

solid metal · period 3, group 1 · s-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+
phonetic
=

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Natrium (sodium)

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: ná Neptunium.

Unicode

U+94A0 in CJK Unified Ideographs