yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Ruthenium Ru · 44

liǎo

solid metal · period 5, group 8 · d-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+
phonetic
=
liǎo

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

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Unicode

U+948C in CJK Unified Ideographs