yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
镍

Nickel Ni · 28

niè

solid metal · period 4, group 10 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 臬 phonetic
from nickel =
镍 niè

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Nickel

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 镍, traditional 鎳.

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尼愛 ní'ài
1868 · 格物入門 · Géwù Rùmén (1868) — W. A. P. Martin (丁韙良), Tongwen College transliteration of ni-ckel
鎘
1870 · 化學初階 · Huàxué Chūjiē (1870) — John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)
臬客爾
1871 · 金石識別 · Jīnshí Shíbié (1871) — D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
鎳 niè
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
  1. 1868 尼愛 ní'ài 格物入門 Géwù Rùmén, W. A. P. Martin (丁韙良), Tongwen College transliteration of ni-ckel
  2. 1870 鎘 化學初階 Huàxué Chūjiē, John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)
  3. 1871 臬客爾 金石識別 Jīnshí Shíbié, D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
  4. 1871 鎳 化學鑑原 Huàxué Jiànyuán, Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal
  5. 1905 鎳 niè 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 ニッケル Korean 니켈 Vietnamese niken

Western name from Swedish via German Kopparnickel/; Kupfernickel, “copper-coloured ore”. Compare all

Unicode

U+954D in CJK Unified Ideographs