yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
镅

Americium Am · 95

méi

solid metal · period 7 · f-block· actinide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 眉 phonetic
from americium =
镅 méi

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Americium

History of the character

Every form found in the sources, from the first missionary chemistry books of the 1850s to the current standards. Hover a dot for the source. Simplified 镅, traditional 鎇, Taiwan 鋂 měi.

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銤 mǐ
1948 · 曾提議 · Proposed, not adopted — Various had earlier meant osmium
鎇 méi
1951 · 化學命名原則（修訂） · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, PRC revision (1951) — Academia Sinica / Ministry of Education, PRC
鋂 měi
today · 臺灣正體（國家教育研究院） · Current Taiwan standard — National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan
  1. 1948 銤 mǐ 曾提議 Proposed, not adopted, Various had earlier meant osmium
  2. 1951 鎇 méi 化學命名原則（修訂） Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, PRC revision, Academia Sinica / Ministry of Education, PRC
  3. today 鋂 měi 臺灣正體（國家教育研究院） Current Taiwan standard, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 镁 měi Magnesium.

Elsewhere

Japanese アメリシウム Korean 아메리슘 Vietnamese americi

Western name from America. Compare all

Unicode

U+9545 in CJK Unified Ideographs

Element discovered 1944.