硫
Sulphur S · 16
solid non-metal · period 3, group 16 · p-block
Anatomy
石 radical 石 shí
stone → solid non-metal
+ stone → solid non-metal
㐬 phonetic
= 硫 liú
Ancient name. Known in China long before modern chemistry; the old character was kept. Known since ancient times as 硫磺
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Unicode
U+786B in CJK Unified Ideographs