yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

“combine, unite, join; gather”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese hap6. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Hafnium

metal → solid metal
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· Hf 72

Transliterates syllable 1 of haf·nium: hafnium.

The reading drifted: the component is read hé, the element hā.