yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

shān

“mountain, hill, peak”

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

Carries Xenon

gas → gas
+
shān
=
xiān · Xe 54

Transliterates syllable 1 of xe·non: xenonxiān.

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

Other elements read shān

Samarium