yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Bohrium Bh · 107

bō

solid metal · period 7, group 7 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 波 phonetic
from bohrium =
bō

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Bohrium

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 𬭛, traditional 𨨏.

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鉨 ní
1994 · 曾提議 · Proposed, not adopted — Various for nielsbohrium
𨨏 bō 金 + 波
1998 · 101–109號元素中文命名 · Names of elements 101–109 (1998) — CNCTST, after the 1997 IUPAC decision
  1. 1994 鉨 ní 曾提議 Proposed, not adopted, Various for nielsbohrium
  2. 1998 𨨏(金 + 波) bō 101–109號元素中文命名 Names of elements 101–109, CNCTST, after the 1997 IUPAC decision

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 铂 bó Platinum.

Elsewhere

Japanese ボーリウム Korean 보륨 Vietnamese bohri

Western name from Bohr, Niels. Compare all

Unicode

U+2CB5B in CJK Extension E (outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, so most fonts lack it; shown here from an outline)

Element discovered 1981.