yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
铝

Aluminium Al · 13

lǚ

solid metal · period 3, group 13 · p-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 吕 phonetic
from aluminium =
铝 lǚ

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Aluminium

History of the character

Every form found in the sources, from the first missionary chemistry books of the 1850s to the current standards. Hover a dot for the source. Simplified 铝, traditional 鋁.

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礬精
1868 · 格物入門 · Géwù Rùmén (1868) — W. A. P. Martin (丁韙良), Tongwen College
釩
1870 · 化學初階 · Huàxué Chūjiē (1870) — John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)
哀盧彌尼恩
1871 · 金石識別 · Jīnshí Shíbié (1871) — D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
鋁 lǚ
1871 · 化學鑑原 · Huàxué Jiànyuán (1871) — Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal1905 · 化學新教科書 · Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū (1905) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
  1. 1868 礬精 格物入門 Géwù Rùmén, W. A. P. Martin (丁韙良), Tongwen College
  2. 1870 釩 化學初階 Huàxué Chūjiē, John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)
  3. 1871 哀盧彌尼恩 金石識別 Jīnshí Shíbié, D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
  4. 1871 鋁 化學鑑原 Huàxué Jiànyuán, Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal
  5. 1905 鋁 lǚ 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 氯 lǜ Chlorine, 镥 lǔ Lutetium, 𬬻 lú Rutherfordium.

Elsewhere

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Western name from Latin alumen, “alum" (literally: bitter salt)”. Compare all

Unicode

U+94DD in CJK Unified Ideographs