yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Rutherfordium Rf · 104

solid metal · period 7, group 4 · d-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
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phonetic
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Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Rutherfordium

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: lǚ Aluminium, lǜ Chlorine, lǔ Lutetium.

Unicode

U+2CB3B in CJK Extension E (outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, so most fonts lack it; shown here from an outline)

Element discovered 1964/1969.