Tin Sn · 50
solid metal · period 5, group 14 · p-block
Anatomy
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易 phonetic
= 锡 xī
Ancient name. Known in China long before modern chemistry; the old character was kept. Named in ancient China
Homophones
Sounds exactly like 硒 Selenium. Only the written radical tells them apart.
Same syllable, different tone: 𬭳 xǐ Seaborgium.
Unicode
U+9521 in CJK Unified Ideographs