U+9486 "钆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9486 "钆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing the chemical element gadolinium, a silvery-white, malleable, and ductile rare-earth metal with the symbol Gd and atomic number 68. In modern Chinese, it is used specifically in scientific and industrial contexts to denote this element, and it is constructed with the metal radical "钅" on the left, indicating its metallic nature, and the phonetic component "乚" on the right, which hints at its pronunciation. This character is part of the broader set of Chinese chemical element names standardized in the mid-20th century to systematically translate elemental nomenclature into Chinese script.