铝
lǚ · HSK 7
aluminum
🥫 钅 metal radical + 吕 (lǚ) — a metal sounding like loo, as in a-LOO-minum
The 钅 radical tags it as a metal; the 吕 component carries the lǚ sound. Link lǚ to the LOO inside a-LOO-minum to lock both the reading and the meaning together.
铝 — metal radical 钅 + 吕 (lǚ phonetic)
铝 is a modern semantic-phonetic compound coined for the element aluminum. The metal radical 钅 (金) marks it as a metal, while 吕 supplies the lǚ sound. The character was created in the 19th–20th century as Chinese chemists adopted a systematic naming pattern for newly discovered elements.