砷
Arsenic As · 33
solid non-metal · period 4, group 15 · p-block
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Arsenic
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 砷, traditional 砷.
- 1868 信石 格物入門 Géwù Rùmén, W. A. P. Martin (丁韙良), Tongwen College
- 1870 (信 over 金) 化學初階 Huàxué Chūjiē, John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)
- 1871 砒 金石識別 Jīnshí Shíbié, D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
- 1871 鉮 化學鑑原 Huàxué Jiànyuán, Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal
- 1901 砒 pī 化學名目與命名法 Chemical Terms and Nomenclature, Educational Association of China (益智書會) from 砒霜 arsenic trioxide
- 1905 砷 shēn 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press stone radical once arsenic was no longer counted as a metal
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese ヒ素 Korean 비소 Vietnamese asen
Western name from Syriac/Persian via Greek, Latin, Old French, and Middle English ἀρσενικόν (arsenikon), “?"male”. Compare all
Unicode
U+7837 in CJK Unified Ideographs