Tungsten W · 74
solid metal · period 6, group 6 · d-block
Anatomy
Meaning-based. The second half also names a property of the element. 乌 means "dark"
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 钨, traditional 鎢.
- 1905 鎢 wū 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 タングステン Korean 텅스텐 Vietnamese vonfram
Western name from Swedish and Danish tung sten, “heavy stone”. Compare all
Unicode
U+94A8 in CJK Unified Ideographs