Germanium Ge · 32
solid metal · period 4, group 14 · p-block
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Germanium
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 锗, traditional 鍺.
- 1905 鍺 zhě 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
- 1920 鈤 rì 曾提議 Proposed, not adopted, Various clashed with the same character used for radium
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese ゲルマニウム Korean 저마늄 Vietnamese gecmani
Western name from Latin Germania, “Germany”. Compare all
Unicode
U+9517 in CJK Unified Ideographs