yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
鿔

Copernicium Cn · 112

gē

solid metal · period 7, group 12 · d-block

Anatomy

金 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 哥 phonetic
from copernicium =
鿔 gē

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Copernicium

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 鿔, traditional 鎶.

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鎶 gē
2010 · 國立編譯館化學名詞審議委員會 · Name of element 112, Taiwan (2010) — National Institute for Compilation and Translation, Taiwan the old columbium character, reused2012 · 112號元素中文定名 · Name of element 112 (2012) — CNCTST
  1. 2010 鎶 gē 國立編譯館化學名詞審議委員會 Name of element 112, Taiwan, National Institute for Compilation and Translation, Taiwan the old columbium character, reused
  2. 2012 鎶 gē 112號元素中文定名 Name of element 112, CNCTST

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 铬 gè Chromium, 镉 gé Cadmium.

Elsewhere

Japanese コペルニシウム Korean 코페르니슘 Vietnamese copernixi

Western name from Polish via Latin Copernicus, Nicolaus, “Polish surname”. Compare all

Unicode

U+9FD4 in CJK Unified Ideographs

Element discovered 1996.