Board Thread:Suggestion Box/@comment-415317-20140916231134/@comment-6697950-20140917165500

It's really not too surprising. Oxygen is literally something like "acid element", carbon - "charcoal element", nitrogen - "obstruction element". Of course, I don't know the exact etymology, but the names weren't exactly random.

And actually, for things like these, we just use the furigana function of the Nihongo template. The kanji is added to the kanji part as the meaning, while the katakana is added as the furigana for the reading.

Edit: I've added the Japanese version of the element names to the page.