yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
钪

Scandium Sc · 21

kàng

solid metal · period 4, group 3 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 亢 phonetic
from scandium =
钪 kàng

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Scandium

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 钪, traditional 鈧.

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鍶 sī
1905 · 化學新教科書 · Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū (1905) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press the character now used for strontium
鈧 kàng
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 鍶 sī 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press the character now used for strontium
  2. 1933 鈧 kàng 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese スカンジウム Korean 스칸듐 Vietnamese scandi

Western name from Latin Scandia, “Scandinavia”. Compare all

Unicode

U+94AA in CJK Unified Ideographs