硒
Selenium Se · 34
solid non-metal · period 4, group 16 · p-block
Anatomy
石 radical 石 shí
stone → solid non-metal
+ stone → solid non-metal
西 phonetic
= 硒 xī
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Selenium
Homophones
Sounds exactly like 锡 Tin. Only the written radical tells them apart.
Same syllable, different tone: 𬭳 xǐ Seaborgium.
Unicode
U+7852 in CJK Unified Ideographs