yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
钬

Holmium Ho · 67

huǒ

solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 火 phonetic
from holmium =
钬 huǒ

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Holmium

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 钬, traditional 鈥.

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鈥 huǒ
1933 · 化學命名原則 · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature (1933) — Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation Inferred: known by 1933, when the Principles fixed one character per element, and no later change is recorded.
  1. 1933 鈥 huǒ 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translationinferred Inferred: known by 1933, when the Principles fixed one character per element, and no later change is recorded.

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese ホルミウム Korean 홀뮴 Vietnamese holmi

Western name from Latin Holmia, “Stockholm”. Compare all

Unicode

U+94AC in CJK Unified Ideographs