yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
氟

Fluorine F · 9

fú

gas · period 2, group 17 · p-block

Anatomy

气 radical 气 qì
gas → gas
+ 弗 phonetic
from fluorine =
氟 fú

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Fluorine

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 氟, traditional 氟.

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弗氣
1870 · 化學初階 · Huàxué Chūjiē (1870) — John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)1871 · 化學鑑原 · Huàxué Jiànyuán (1871) — Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal
夫羅而林
1871 · 金石識別 · Jīnshí Shíbié (1871) — D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
弗 fú
1905 · 化學新教科書 · Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū (1905) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
氟 fú
1933 · 化學命名原則 · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature (1933) — Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation
  1. 1870 弗氣 化學初階 Huàxué Chūjiē, John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)
  2. 1871 夫羅而林 金石識別 Jīnshí Shíbié, D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
  3. 1871 弗氣 化學鑑原 Huàxué Jiànyuán, Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal
  4. 1905 弗 fú 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
  5. 1933 氟 fú 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 𫓧 fū Flerovium.

Elsewhere

Japanese フッ素 Korean 플루오린 Vietnamese fluor

Western name from Latin fluor, “a flowing”. Compare all

Unicode

U+6C1F in CJK Unified Ideographs