yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Rutherfordium Rf · 104

lú

solid metal · period 7, group 4 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 卢 phonetic
from rutherfordium =
lú

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Rutherfordium

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 𬬻, traditional 鑪.

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龲 kù 金 + 庫
1970 · 東方集團譯名 · Eastern-bloc usage — Textbooks following Soviet naming for kurchatovium, the Soviet name
鑪 lú
1998 · 101–109號元素中文命名 · Names of elements 101–109 (1998) — CNCTST, after the 1997 IUPAC decision already defined earlier, confirmed after IUPAC settled on rutherfordium
  1. 1970 龲(金 + 庫) kù 東方集團譯名 Eastern-bloc usage, Textbooks following Soviet naming for kurchatovium, the Soviet name
  2. 1998 鑪 lú 101–109號元素中文命名 Names of elements 101–109, CNCTST, after the 1997 IUPAC decision already defined earlier, confirmed after IUPAC settled on rutherfordium

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 铝 lǚ Aluminium, 氯 lǜ Chlorine, 镥 lǔ Lutetium.

Elsewhere

Japanese ラザホージウム Korean 러더포듐 Vietnamese rutherfordi

Western name from Rutherford, Ernest. Compare all

Unicode

U+2CB3B in CJK Extension E (outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, so most fonts lack it; shown here from an outline)

Element discovered 1964/1969.