锗
zhě

germanium

Components

钅
钅 Meaning component
jīn metal

metal

者
者 Sound component
zhě one who...

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

鍺 germanium Traditional

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtoːlʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica