yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Platinum Pt · 78

solid metal · period 6, group 10 · d-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
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sound and meaning
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Meaning-based. The second half also names a property of the element. “white”, as in “white gold”

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 𬭛 bō Bohrium.

Unicode

U+94C2 in CJK Unified Ideographs