yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

“gram; overcome; transliteration”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese hak1. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Krypton

gas → gas
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· Kr 36

Transliterates syllable 1 of kryp·ton: krypton.

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.