Chinese symbol for “mercury”
汞
gǒng
mercury (chemistry)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for mercury is 汞 (gǒng), defined as: mercury (chemistry).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “mercury”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 汞.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 毫米汞柱 | háo mǐ gǒng zhù | millimeter of mercury; mmHg (unit of pressure) |
| 氧化汞 | yǎng huà gǒng | mercuric oxide (HgO) |
| 汞灯 (汞燈) | gǒng dēng | mercury-vapor lamp |
| 甘汞 | gān gǒng | calomel or mercurous chloride (Hg2Cl2) |
| 升汞 | shēng gǒng | mercuric chloride (HgCl) |
| 红汞 (紅汞) | hóng gǒng | merbromin; mercurochrome |
See also: Japanese symbol for “mercury”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.