yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
钆

Gadolinium Gd · 64

gá

solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 乚 phonetic
from gadolinium =
钆 gá

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Gadolinium

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 钆, traditional 釓.

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釓 gá
1900 · 亞泉雜誌 · Yàquán Zázhì (1900) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉) proposed by Dù Yàquán1945 · 化學命名原則（修訂） · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, revised (1945) — Ministry of Education, Republic of China formally adopted
  1. 1900 釓 gá 亞泉雜誌 Yàquán Zázhì, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉) proposed by Dù Yàquán
  2. 1945 釓 gá 化學命名原則（修訂） Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, revised, Ministry of Education, Republic of China formally adopted

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese ガドリニウム Korean 가돌리늄 Vietnamese gadolini

Western name from Finnish Gadolin, Johan. Compare all

Unicode

U+9486 in CJK Unified Ideographs