Berkelium Bk · 97
solid metal · period 7 · f-block· actinide
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Berkelium
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 锫, traditional 錇, Taiwan 鉳 běi.
- 1951 錇 péi 化學命名原則（修訂） Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, PRC revision, Academia Sinica / Ministry of Education, PRC
- today 鉳 běi 臺灣正體（國家教育研究院） Current Taiwan standard, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese バークリウム Korean 버클륨 Vietnamese berkeli
Western name from Anglo-Saxon via English University of California, Berkeley. Compare all
Unicode
U+952B in CJK Unified Ideographs
Element discovered 1949.