yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Tantalum Ta · 73

tǎn

solid metal · period 6, group 5 · d-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+
phonetic
=
tǎn

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Tantalum

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: tàn Carbon.

Unicode

U+94BD in CJK Unified Ideographs