About
The character 铹, a modern phono-semantic compound, is the simplified form of 鐒 and was devised to represent the synthetic element lawrencium. It consists of the metal radical 钅 (jīn) on the left, indicating a metallic element, and the phonetic component 劳 (láo) on the right, chosen to mimic the first syllable of 'Lawrence,' after the physicist Ernest Lawrence. This follows the standardized Chinese method for naming chemical elements, which pairs a semantic radical denoting the material category with a phonetic transliteration.
Report an issue
Flag incorrect definitions, examples, etymology, etc.