yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Magnesium Mg · 12

měi

solid metal · period 3, group 2 · s-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+
phonetic
=
měi

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Magnesium

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: méi Americium.

Unicode

U+9541 in CJK Unified Ideographs