What 钼 means
It names molybdenum; 钅 marks metal and 目 hints at sound.
In 1871, chemist Xu Shou and translator John Fryer set out this material-plus-sound pattern in 化学鉴原, a chemistry textbook that helped shape Chinese element names.
Technical and neutral; used in chemistry and materials terms.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 钼 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 钼
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 94BC, then Alt+X to get 钼.
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-94bc”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 94bc, then Enter or Space.
HTML
钼CSS
\94BCMandarin Pinyin
Pinyin spells Mandarin with Latin letters. Type mu and select 钼 from the suggestions; other characters share its reading.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
钼
HTML hex
钼
CSS content
content: "\94BC";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%92%BC
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.