yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
锿

Einsteinium Es · 99

āi

solid metal · period 7 · f-block· actinide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 哀 phonetic
from einsteinium =
锿 āi

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Einsteinium

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 锿, traditional 鎄, Taiwan 鑀 ài.

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鎄 āi
1955 · 無機化合物名詞審查 · Inorganic terms review (1955) — Chemical terms committee, PRC
鑀 ài
today · 臺灣正體（國家教育研究院） · Current Taiwan standard — National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan
  1. 1955 鎄 āi 無機化合物名詞審查 Inorganic terms review, Chemical terms committee, PRC
  2. today 鑀 ài 臺灣正體（國家教育研究院） Current Taiwan standard, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 砹 ài Astatine.

Elsewhere

Japanese アインスタイニウム Korean 아인슈타이늄 Vietnamese einsteini

Western name from German Einstein, Albert. Compare all

Unicode

U+953F in CJK Unified Ideographs

Element discovered 1952.