Lanthanum La · 57
solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Lanthanum
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 镧, traditional 鑭.
- 1905 鋃 láng 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
- 1933 鑭 lán 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese ランタン Korean 란타넘 Vietnamese lantan
Western name from Greek λανθάνειν (lanthanein), “to escape notice”. Compare all
Unicode
U+9567 in CJK Unified Ideographs