yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Plutonium Pu · 94

solid metal · period 7 · f-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+
phonetic
=

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Plutonium

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Unicode

U+949A in CJK Unified Ideographs

Element discovered 1940--41.