yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Radon Rn · 86

dōng

gas · period 6, group 18 · p-block

Anatomy

radical
gas → gas
+ phonetic
from radon
=
dōng

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Radon

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 , traditional .

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dōng
1945 · 化學命名原則(修訂) · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, revised (1945) — Ministry of Education, Republic of China replaced an earlier term
  1. 1945 dōng 化學命名原則(修訂) Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, revised, Ministry of Education, Republic of China replaced an earlier term

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese ラドン Korean 라돈 Vietnamese radon

Western name from Latin via German and English radium. Compare all

Unicode

U+6C21 in CJK Unified Ideographs