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鋁

cjk unified ideograph-92c1

Traditional Aluminum Character

鋁 is the traditional Chinese character for aluminum. In a chemistry or materials word, read it as the metal; the simplified form is 铝. Older dictionaries connect it with 鑢, while modern chemistry repurposed it as an element name.

Text symbol
Also called
铝 · aluminum · aluminium
Search it as
al · lv · 鋁箔 · 鋁合金
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 鋁 means

It means aluminum in modern Chinese. The Ministry of Education's 2024 record lists no Shuowen form and traces 鋁 through dictionaries as a variant of 鑢, linked to filing copper or iron. That older sense is dictionary history, not present-day use.

In 1871, Xu Shou and John Fryer built element names from a sound cue plus a metal radical. 鋁 belongs to that system; read words such as 鋁箔 as foil and 鋁合金 as alloy. Copy it from the palette above when you need the traditional form.

Technical and neutral: it names a material, not a conversational reaction.

If it arrives alone, ask for context; it is not an emoji mood cue.

Don't confuse it with

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铝
CJK Unified Ideograph-94Dd
鋁 or 铝: traditional and simplified forms of the same aluminum word.

Questions people ask

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Is 鋁 an emoji?

No. It is a typed Chinese character, so its appearance follows the font rather than emoji artwork.

How to type 鋁

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 92C1, then Alt+X to get 鋁.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-92c1”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 92c1, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鋁
CSS
\92C1
Pinyin: lǚ 鋁
Type lǚ, Mandarin third-tone lu, in a Traditional IME, then pick 鋁.
Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˇ
Type ㄌㄩˇ in a Traditional IME, then pick 鋁 from candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鋁
HTML hex
鋁
CSS content
content: "\92C1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%8B%81
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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