yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
铼

Rhenium Re · 75

lái

solid metal · period 6, group 7 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 来 phonetic
from rhenium =
铼 lái

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Rhenium

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 铼, traditional 錸.

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錸 lái
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 錸 lái 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

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese レニウム Korean 레늄 Vietnamese rheni

Western name from Latin Rhenus, “Rhine”. Compare all

Unicode

U+94FC in CJK Unified Ideographs