yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
铑

Rhodium Rh · 45

lǎo

solid metal · period 5, group 9 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 老 phonetic
from rhodium =
铑 lǎo

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Rhodium (from Russ. Ródij, transliterated as l- instead of R-)

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 铑, traditional 銠.

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錴 lù
1905 · 化學新教科書 · Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū (1905) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
銠 lǎo
1933 · 化學命名原則 · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature (1933) — Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation
  1. 1905 錴 lù 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
  2. 1933 銠 lǎo 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 铹 láo Lawrencium.

Elsewhere

Japanese ロジウム Korean 로듐 Vietnamese rhodi

Western name from Greek ῥόδον (rhodon), “rose”. Compare all

Unicode

U+94D1 in CJK Unified Ideographs