锆

Zirconium Zr · 40

gào

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

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal

+ 告 phonetic
from zirconium =

锆 gào

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Zirconium

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 锆, traditional 鋯.

1905 鋯 gào 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 ジルコニウム Korean 지르코늄 Vietnamese zirconi

Western name from Syriac/Persian via Arabic and German ܙܐܪܓܥܢܥ (zargono),{{cite web, “gold-like”. Compare all

Unicode

U+9506 in CJK Unified Ideographs