yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
钋

Polonium Po · 84

pō

solid metal · period 6, group 16 · p-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 卜 phonetic
from polonium =
钋 pō

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Polonium

History of the character

Every form found in the sources, from the first missionary chemistry books of the 1850s to the current standards. Hover a dot for the source. Simplified 钋, traditional 釙.

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釙 pō
1933 · 化學命名原則 · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature (1933) — Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation Inferred: known by 1933, when the Principles fixed one character per element, and no later change is recorded.
  1. 1933 釙 pō 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translationinferred Inferred: known by 1933, when the Principles fixed one character per element, and no later change is recorded.

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 钷 pǒ Promethium.

Elsewhere

Japanese ポロニウム Korean 폴로늄 Vietnamese poloni

Western name from Latin Polonia, “Poland”. Compare all

Unicode

U+948B in CJK Unified Ideographs