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The character "钨" was devised specifically for the chemical element tungsten, constructed from the metal radical 钅, denoting its metallic category, and the phonetic component 乌, which provides the approximate pronunciation "wū". Its traditional form "鎢" maintains an identical structural logic with the semantic radical 金 and the phonetic element 烏, and both forms have solely referred to this element since their coining for scientific terminology.