yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
锰

Manganese Mn · 25

měng

solid metal · period 4, group 7 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 孟 phonetic
from manganese =
锰 měng

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Manganese

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 锰, traditional 錳.

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蒙石
1868 · 格物入門 · Géwù Rùmén (1868) — W. A. P. Martin (丁韙良), Tongwen College
錳 měng
1870 · 化學初階 · Huàxué Chūjiē (1870) — John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)1871 · 化學鑑原 · Huàxué Jiànyuán (1871) — Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal1905 · 化學新教科書 · Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū (1905) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
孟葛尼斯
1871 · 金石識別 · Jīnshí Shíbié (1871) — D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
無名異 wúmíngyì
1873 · 化學指南 · Huàxué Zhǐnán (1873) — Anatole Billequin (畢利幹) & Lián Zǐzhèn (聯子振) the mineral pyrolusite; Billequin merged it into one character
  1. 1868 蒙石 格物入門 Géwù Rùmén, W. A. P. Martin (丁韙良), Tongwen College
  2. 1870 錳 化學初階 Huàxué Chūjiē, John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)
  3. 1871 孟葛尼斯 金石識別 Jīnshí Shíbié, D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
  4. 1871 錳 化學鑑原 Huàxué Jiànyuán, Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal
  5. 1873 無名異 wúmíngyì 化學指南 Huàxué Zhǐnán, Anatole Billequin (畢利幹) & Lián Zǐzhèn (聯子振) the mineral pyrolusite; Billequin merged it into one character
  6. 1905 錳 měng 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese マンガン Korean 망가니즈 Vietnamese mangan

Western name from Greek via Latin, Italian, and French Μαγνησία; (Magnesia;; Medieval Latin: magnesia), “Magnesia (regional unit)", Greece”. Compare all

Unicode

U+9530 in CJK Unified Ideographs