铹

Lawrencium Lr · 103

láo

solid metal · period 7 · f-block· actinide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal

+ 劳 phonetic
from lawrencium =

铹 láo

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Lawrencium

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 铹, traditional 鐒.

1991 鐒 láo 化學名詞 Chemical Terms, China National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technologies (全國科學技術名詞審定委員會)inferred Inferred: finalised at the latest in Chemical Terms (1991), which settled every element up to 109.

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 铑 lǎo Rhodium.

Elsewhere

Japanese ローレンシウム Korean 로렌슘 Vietnamese Lawrenci

Western name from Lawrence, Ernest. Compare all

Unicode

U+94F9 in CJK Unified Ideographs

Element discovered 1961.