yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
铬

Chromium Cr · 24

gè

solid metal · period 4, group 6 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 各 phonetic
from chromium =
铬 gè

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Chromium

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 铬, traditional 鉻.

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鏴
1870 · 化學初階 · Huàxué Chūjiē (1870) — John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)
客羅彌恩
1871 · 金石識別 · Jīnshí Shíbié (1871) — D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
鉻 gè
1871 · 化學鑑原 · Huàxué Jiànyuán (1871) — Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal1905 · 化學新教科書 · Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū (1905) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
生色 shēngsè
1873 · 化學指南 · Huàxué Zhǐnán (1873) — Anatole Billequin (畢利幹) & Lián Zǐzhèn (聯子振) “colour-generating”, Billequin's property-based name
  1. 1870 鏴 化學初階 Huàxué Chūjiē, John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)
  2. 1871 客羅彌恩 金石識別 Jīnshí Shíbié, D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
  3. 1871 鉻 化學鑑原 Huàxué Jiànyuán, Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal
  4. 1873 生色 shēngsè 化學指南 Huàxué Zhǐnán, Anatole Billequin (畢利幹) & Lián Zǐzhèn (聯子振) “colour-generating”, Billequin's property-based name
  5. 1905 鉻 gè 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 镉 gé Cadmium, 鿔 gē Copernicium.

Elsewhere

Japanese クロム Korean 크로뮴 Vietnamese chromi

Western name from Greek via French χρῶμα (chróma), “colour”. Compare all

Unicode

U+94EC in CJK Unified Ideographs