yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Roentgenium Rg · 111

lún

solid metal · period 7, group 11 · d-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+ phonetic
from roentgenium
=
lún

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Roentgenium

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 𬬭, traditional .

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lún
2007 · 111號元素中文定名 · Name of element 111 (2007) — CNCTST an old character for a kind of metal, agreed in 2006 and published in 2007
  1. 2007 lún 111號元素中文定名 Name of element 111, CNCTST an old character for a kind of metal, agreed in 2006 and published in 2007

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese レントゲニウム Korean 뢴트게늄 Vietnamese Roentgeni

Western name from Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad. Compare all

Unicode

U+2CB2D in CJK Extension E (outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, so most fonts lack it; shown here from an outline)

Element discovered 1994.