yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
铈

Cerium Ce · 58

shì

solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 市 phonetic
from cerium =
铈 shì

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Cerium

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 铈, traditional 鈰.

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錯 cuò
1905 · 化學新教科書 · Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū (1905) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
鈰 shì
1933 · 化學命名原則 · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature (1933) — Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation
  1. 1905 錯 cuò 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
  2. 1933 鈰 shì 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese セリウム Korean 세륨 Vietnamese xeri

Western name from Latin ceres, “grain", "bread”. Compare all

Unicode

U+94C8 in CJK Unified Ideographs