yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
镝

Dysprosium Dy · 66

dī

solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 啇 phonetic
from dysprosium =
镝 dī

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Dysprosium

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 镝, traditional 鏑.

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鏑 dī
1933 · 化學命名原則 · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature (1933) — Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation Inferred: known by 1933, when the Principles fixed one character per element, and no later change is recorded.
  1. 1933 鏑 dī 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translationinferred Inferred: known by 1933, when the Principles fixed one character per element, and no later change is recorded.

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 碲 dì Tellurium.

Elsewhere

Japanese ジスプロシウム Korean 디스프로슘 Vietnamese dysprosi

Western name from Greek δυσπρόσιτος (dysprositos), “hard to get at”. Compare all

Unicode

U+955D in CJK Unified Ideographs