yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
钫

Francium Fr · 87

fāng

solid metal · period 7, group 1 · s-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 方 phonetic
from francium
=
钫 fāng

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Francium

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 钫, traditional 鈁, Taiwan 鍅 fǎ.

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鈁 fāng
1991 · 化學名詞 · Chemical Terms (1991) — China National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technologies (全國科學技術名詞審定委員會)
鍅 fǎ
today · 臺灣正體(國家教育研究院) · Current Taiwan standard — National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan
  1. 1991 鈁 fāng 化學名詞 Chemical Terms, China National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technologies (全國科學技術名詞審定委員會)
  2. today 鍅 fǎ 臺灣正體(國家教育研究院) Current Taiwan standard, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese フランシウム Korean 프랑슘 Vietnamese franxi

Western name from French France. Compare all

Unicode

U+94AB in CJK Unified Ideographs