yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
山

山 shān

“mountain, hill, peak”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese saan1. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Xenon

气 gas → gas
+
山 shān
=
氙 xiān · Xe 54

Transliterates syllable 1 of xe·non: xenon → xiān.

The reading drifted: the component is read shān, the element xiān.

Other elements read shān

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