yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
镓

Gallium Ga · 31

jiā

solid metal · period 4, group 13 · p-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 家 phonetic
from gallium =
镓 jiā

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Gallium

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 镓, traditional 鎵.

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鋏 jiá
1905 · 化學新教科書 · Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū (1905) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
鎵 jiā
1933 · 化學命名原則 · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature (1933) — Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation
  1. 1905 鋏 jiá 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
  2. 1933 鎵 jiā 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: 钾 jiǎ Potassium.

Elsewhere

Japanese ガリウム Korean 갈륨 Vietnamese gali

Western name from Latin Gallia, “Gaul" (Ancient France)”. Compare all

Unicode

U+9553 in CJK Unified Ideographs