yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Mendelevium Md · 101

mén

solid metal · period 7 · f-block· actinide

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+ phonetic
from mendelevium
=
mén

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Mendelevium

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 , traditional .

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mén
1991 · 化學名詞 · Chemical Terms (1991) — China National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technologies (全國科學技術名詞審定委員會) Inferred: finalised at the latest in Chemical Terms (1991), which settled every element up to 109.
  1. 1991 mén 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

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese メンデレビウム Korean 멘델레븀 Vietnamese Mendelevi

Western name from Mendeleyev, Dmitri. Compare all

Unicode

U+9494 in CJK Unified Ideographs

Element discovered 1955.