Palladium Pd · 46
solid metal · period 5, group 10 · d-block
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Palladium
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 钯, traditional 鈀.
- 1905 鈀 bǎ 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 パラジウム Korean 팔라듐 Vietnamese paladi
Western name from Greek via Latin Παλλάς (genitive: Παλλάδος) (Pallas), “little maiden”. Compare all
Unicode
U+94AF in CJK Unified Ideographs