How would "nihonium" be written in Japanese Kanji?


Would the character for it involve the radicals for "metal", "sun", and
"source"? The few references to it I've seen all use only katakana.

Would such a character have an "archaic" reading of something like ひもとがね in
the fashion that 鉄 has the archaic reading of くろがね?




All elements that do not have their own native Japanese word, such as oxygen
or iron, etc., are just transliterated from the English name (mostly). So
nihonium would just be ニホニウム. This is especially the case for the superheavy
synthetic elements since they have all been discovered recently and thus would
not have their own dedicated word in Japanese.

