yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
铒

Erbium Er · 68

ěr

solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 耳 phonetic
from erbium =
铒 ěr

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Erbium

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 铒, traditional 鉺.

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鉺 ěr
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 鉺 ěr 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

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese エルビウム Korean 어븀 Vietnamese erbi

Western name from Swedish Ytterby, “proper name”. Compare all

Unicode

U+94D2 in CJK Unified Ideographs