Flerovium Fl · 114

fū

solid metal · period 7, group 14 · p-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal

fū

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Flerovium

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 𫓧, traditional 鈇.

2012 鈇 fū 國家教育研究院化學名詞審譯委員會 Names of elements 114 and 116, Taiwan (provisional), National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan provisional Taiwan name; 鈇 is an old word for an axe
2013 𫓧(钅 + 夫) fū 114、116號元素中文定名 Names of elements 114 and 116, CNCTST

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 氟 fú Fluorine.

Elsewhere

Japanese フレロビウム Korean 플레로븀 Vietnamese flerovi

Western name from Russian Flerov, Georgy, “Russian surname”. Compare all

Unicode

U+2B4E7 in CJK Extension C (outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, so most fonts lack it; shown here from an outline)

Element discovered 1999.