yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Seaborgium Sg · 106

solid metal · period 7, group 6 · d-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+ phonetic
from seaborgium
=

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Seaborgium

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 𬭳, traditional 𨭎.

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𨭎 金 + 喜
1998 · 101–109號元素中文命名 · Names of elements 101–109 (1998) — CNCTST, after the 1997 IUPAC decision
  1. 1998 𨭎(金 + 喜) 101–109號元素中文命名 Names of elements 101–109, CNCTST, after the 1997 IUPAC decision

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: xī Selenium, xī Tin.

Elsewhere

Japanese シーボーギウム Korean 시보귬 Vietnamese seaborgi

Western name from Swedish via English Seaborg, Glenn Teodor, “Swedish surname”. Compare all

Unicode

U+2CB73 in CJK Extension E (outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, so most fonts lack it; shown here from an outline)

Element discovered 1974.