镉

Cadmium Cd · 48

gé

solid metal · period 5, group 12 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal

+ 鬲 phonetic
from cadmium =

镉 gé

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Cadmium

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 镉, traditional 鎘.

1905 鎘 gé 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 铬 gè Chromium, 鿔 gē Copernicium.

Elsewhere

Japanese カドミウム Korean 카드뮴 Vietnamese cadmi

Western name from Greek/Latin καδμεία (kadmeia), “Earth" (as classical element),; "calamine" or Cadmean earth[?]”. Compare all

Unicode

U+9549 in CJK Unified Ideographs