yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

gěn

“Kangxi radical 138; trigram ☶; hexagram ䷳”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese gan3. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Silver

metal → solid metal
+
gěn
=
yín · Ag 47

Not a plain transliteration: the component was chosen for its meaning, or the name is older than the system.

The reading drifted: the component is read gěn, the element yín.