yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
氪

Krypton Kr · 36

kè

gas · period 4, group 18 · p-block

Anatomy

气 radical 气 qì
gas → gas
+ 克 phonetic
from krypton =
氪 kè

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Krypton

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 氪, traditional 氪.

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氪 kè
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 氪 kè 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 クリプトン Korean 크립톤 Vietnamese krypton

Western name from Greek κρυπτός (kryptos), “hidden”. Compare all

Unicode

U+6C2A in CJK Unified Ideographs