yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
钒

Vanadium V · 23

fán

solid metal · period 4, group 5 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 凡 phonetic
from vanadium =
钒 fán

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Vanadium

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 钒, traditional 釩.

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鐇
1870 · 化學初階 · Huàxué Chūjiē (1870) — John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)
凡奈地恩
1871 · 金石識別 · Jīnshí Shíbié (1871) — D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
釩 fán
1871 · 化學鑑原 · Huàxué Jiànyuán (1871) — Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal1905 · 化學新教科書 · Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū (1905) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
  1. 1870 鐇 化學初階 Huàxué Chūjiē, John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)
  2. 1871 凡奈地恩 金石識別 Jīnshí Shíbié, D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
  3. 1871 釩 化學鑑原 Huàxué Jiànyuán, Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal
  4. 1905 釩 fán 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese バナジウム Korean 바나듐 Vietnamese vanadi

Western name from Old Norse Vanadís, “Dís of the Vanir”. Compare all

Unicode

U+9492 in CJK Unified Ideographs