Bismuth Bi · 83
solid metal · period 6, group 15 · p-block
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Bismuth
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 铋, traditional 鉍.
- 1905 鉍 bì 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese ビスマス Korean 비스무트 Vietnamese bitmut
Western name from Neo-Latin from German bisemutum, “white mass”. Compare all
Unicode
U+94CB in CJK Unified Ideographs