yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Hassium Hs · 108

hēi

solid metal · period 7, group 8 · d-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+ phonetic
from hassium
=
hēi

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Hassium

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 𬭶, traditional 𨭆.

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𨭆 hēi 金 + 黑
1998 · 101–109號元素中文命名 · Names of elements 101–109 (1998) — CNCTST, after the 1997 IUPAC decision
  1. 1998 𨭆(金 + 黑) hēi 101–109號元素中文命名 Names of elements 101–109, CNCTST, after the 1997 IUPAC decision

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese ハッシウム Korean 하슘 Vietnamese hassi

Western name from Latin Hassia, “Hesse”. Compare all

Unicode

U+2CB76 in CJK Extension E (outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, so most fonts lack it; shown here from an outline)

Element discovered 1984.