Magnesium Mg · 12
solid metal · period 3, group 2 · s-block
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Magnesium
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 镁, traditional 鎂.
- 1870 鎂 化學初階 Huàxué Chūjiē, John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)
- 1871 美合尼西恩 金石識別 Jīnshí Shíbié, D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
- 1871 鎂 化學鑑原 Huàxué Jiànyuán, Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal
Homophones
Same syllable, different tone: 镅 méi Americium.
Elsewhere
Japanese マグネシウム Korean 마그네슘 Vietnamese magnesi
Western name from Greek Μαγνησία (Magnesia). Compare all
Unicode
U+9541 in CJK Unified Ideographs