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The document discusses the origins of Chinese character names for many chemical elements and notes conventions like using phonetic or meaning components. It also explains differences in traditional and simplified characters for transuranic elements.

Many element names incorporate phonetic or meaning components from classical Chinese. For example, oxygen uses characters meaning 'to feed' and hydrogen means 'light in weight'. Some names also directly reference elemental properties like chlorine using a character meaning 'green'.

For elements discovered after 1949, traditional and simplified Chinese use different characters as the writing systems diverged between mainland China and Taiwan. Younger elements only have traditional characters as extensions to Unicode, so operating systems may not support displaying them. Simplified characters for these have not been standardized.

Gruppe I.

R2O 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Gruppe II. RO H=1 Li=7 Na=23 K=39 (Cu=63) Rb=85 (Ag=108) Cs=133 (-) (Au=199) -

Gruppe III. R2O3 Be=9,4 Mg=24 Ca=40 Zn=65 Sr=87 Cd=112 Ba=137 Hg=200 -

Gruppe IV. RH4 RO2 B=11 Al=27,3 -=44 -=68 ?Yt=88 In=113 ?Di=138 ?Er=178 Tl=204 -

Gruppe V. RH3 R2O5 C=12 Si=28 Ti=48 -=72 Zr=90 Sn=118 ?Ce=140 ?La=180 Pb=207 Th=231

Gruppe VI. RH2 RO3 N=14 P=31 V=51 As=75 Nb=94 Sb=122 Ta=182 Bi=208 -

Gruppe VII. RH R2O7 O=16 S=32 Cr=52 Se=78 Mo=96 Te=125 W=184 U=240

Gruppe VIII. RO4 F=19 Cl=35,5 Mn=55 Br=80 -=100 J=127 Ru=104, Rh=104, Pd=106, Ag=108. ---Os=195, Ir=197, Pt=198, Au=199 ---Fe=56, Ce=59, Ni=59, Cu=63.

Some chemical elements, including gold (), silver (), copper (), iron (), lead (), tin (), and mercury (), did not require new characters at all, as they were well known before the conception of modern chemistry and atomic theory.

(oxygen): the part is the short form for (to feed, maintain), as oxygen is the gas for human survival. (hydrogen): the part is the short form for (light in weight). (chlorine): the part is the short form for (green).

Note that some of those "new characters" are not indeed new: they are instead archaic characters, whose original meanings have been obscure for long,

such as (Protactinium), (Beryllium) and (Chromium). Most elements have the same name in Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese but use a different variant of the same base character. The exceptions are the transuranium elements; as most of these elements were discovered after the establishment of People's Republic of China in 1949, they have been given different names in Traditional and Simplified Chinese as the former is still used in the Republic of China while the latter has been adopted by the People's Republic of China. Traditional characters for elements with atomic numbers 104 and above were only added in Unicode 3.1 (2001) as surrogate pairs that are part of the CJK Ideographs Extension B character set; many operating systems and web browsers do not support the display of surrogate pair characters. They are thus displayed twice in the traditional characters table below, as both the surrogate pair characters themselves and as combinations of phonetic components. Simplified characters for elements 104 and above have not been encoded as of Unicode 4.1 (2005) and are thus given only as combinations of phonetic components in the simplified characters table below.

Legend
Chemical Series of the Periodic Table
Alkali metals Alkaline earths Lanthanide Actinides Transition metals Poor metals Metalloids Nonmetals Halogens Noble gases Color coding for atomic numbers: Elements numbered in blue are liquids at room temperature; those in green are gases at room temperature; those in black are solid at room temperature; those in red are synthetic and do not occur naturally (all are solid at room temperature). those in gray have not yet been discovered (they also have muted fill colors indicating the likely chemical series they would fall under).

Simplified Chinese
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

1 1 H 3 2 Li 11 3 Na 19 4 K 37 5 Rb 55 6 Cs 87 7 Fr

4 Be 12 Mg 20 Ca 38 Sr 56 Ba 88 Ra

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 Lu Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 Lr Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Uub Uut Uuq Uup Uuh Uus Uuo 58 Ce 90 Th 59 Pr 91 Pa 60 61 62 63 Nd Pm Sm Eu 92 93 94 95 U Np Pu Am 64 Gd 96 Cm 65 Tb 97 Bk 66 67 68 69 70 Dy Ho Er Tm Yb 98 99 100 101 102 Cf Es Fm Md No

5 B 13 Al 31 Ga 49 In 81 Tl

6 C 14 Si 32 Ge 50 Sn 82 Pb

7 N 15 P 33 As 51 Sb 83 Bi

8 O 16 S 34 Se 52 Te 84 Po

9 F 17 Cl 35 Br 53 I 85 At

2 He 10 Ne 18 Ar 36 Kr 54 Xe 86 Rn

57 La 89 Ac

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