yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

dōng

“winter, 11th lunar month”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese dung1. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Radon

gas → gas
+
dōng
=
dōng · Rn 86

Transliterates syllable 2 of ra·don: radondōng.

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.