yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
氩

Argon Ar · 18

yà

gas · period 3, group 18 · p-block

Anatomy

气 radical 气 qì
gas → gas
+ 亚 phonetic
from argon =
氩 yà

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Argon

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 氩, traditional 氬.

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亞爾艮 yà'ěrgěn
1898 · 日文轉譯 · Japanese-mediated transliteration — Early 20th-century textbooks from Japanese arugon
氬 yà
1900 · 亞泉雜誌 · Yàquán Zázhì (1900) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉) Dù Yàquán's first 气-radical coinage; he later took his own name from 氬線
  1. 1898 亞爾艮 yà'ěrgěn 日文轉譯 Japanese-mediated transliteration, Early 20th-century textbooks from Japanese arugon
  2. 1900 氬 yà 亞泉雜誌 Yàquán Zázhì, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉) Dù Yàquán's first 气-radical coinage; he later took his own name from 氬線

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese アルゴン Korean 아르곤 Vietnamese agon

Western name from Greek ἀργόν (argon), “inactive”. Compare all

Unicode

U+6C29 in CJK Unified Ideographs