yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Yttrium Y · 39

solid metal · period 5, group 3 · d-block

Anatomy

radical jīn
metal → solid metal
+
phonetic
=

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Yttrium

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: yì Ytterbium, yī Iridium.

Unicode

U+9487 in CJK Unified Ideographs