yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
冬

冬 dōng

“winter, 11th lunar month”

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

Carries Radon

气 gas → gas
+
冬 dōng
=
氡 dōng · Rn 86

Transliterates syllable 2 of ra·don: radon → dōng.

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.