Barium Ba · 56
solid metal · period 6, group 2 · s-block
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Barium
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 钡, traditional 鋇.
- 1905 鋇 bèi 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese バリウム Korean 바륨 Vietnamese bari
Western name from Greek via Neo-Latin βαρύς (barys), “heavy”. Compare all
Unicode
U+94A1 in CJK Unified Ideographs