铟

Indium In · 49

yīn

solid metal · period 5, group 13 · p-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal

+ 因 phonetic
from indium =

铟 yīn

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Indium

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 铟, traditional 銦.

1905 銦 yīn 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 银 yín Silver.

Elsewhere

Japanese インジウム Korean 인듐 Vietnamese indi

Western name from Greek via Latin and English indigo. Compare all

Unicode

U+94DF in CJK Unified Ideographs