U+956D "镭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+956D "镭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the element radium, carrying the meaning of "radium" as a metallic chemical symbol. It is composed of the radical "金" (jīn), meaning gold or metal, and a phonetic component "雷" (léi), which means thunder, together forming a character used in modern Chinese to denote the radioactive element discovered by Marie Curie. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block in Unicode, where it functions as a standard logogram for radium in various technical and scientific contexts across East Asian languages.