yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Rhodium Rh · 45

lǎo

solid metal · period 5, group 9 · d-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+
phonetic
=
lǎo

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Rhodium (from Russ. Ródij, transliterated as l- instead of R-)

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: láo Lawrencium.

Unicode

U+94D1 in CJK Unified Ideographs