yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
鿫

Oganesson Og · 118

ào

gas · period 7, group 18 · p-block

Anatomy

气 radical 气 qì
gas → gas
+ 奥 phonetic
from oganesson
=
鿫 ào

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Oganesson

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 鿫, traditional 鿫.

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鿫 ào
2017 · 113、115、117、118號元素中文定名 · Names of elements 113, 115, 117, 118 (2017) — CNCTST with the State Language Commission
  1. 2017 鿫 ào 113、115、117、118號元素中文定名 Names of elements 113, 115, 117, 118, CNCTST with the State Language Commission

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese オガネソン Korean 오가네손 Vietnamese oganesson

Western name from Russian Oganessian, Yuri (Оганесян), “Armenian surname”. Compare all

Unicode

U+9FEB in CJK Unified Ideographs

Element discovered 2002.