yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Lead Pb · 82

qiān

solid metal · period 6, group 14 · p-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+
phonetic
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qiān

Ancient name. Known in China long before modern chemistry; the old character was kept. Named in ancient China

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Unicode

U+94C5 in CJK Unified Ideographs