yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
铕

Europium Eu · 63

yǒu

solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 有 phonetic
from europium =
铕 yǒu

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Europium

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 铕, traditional 銪.

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銪 yǒu
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 銪 yǒu 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: 铀 yóu Uranium.

Elsewhere

Japanese ユウロピウム Korean 유로퓸 Vietnamese europi

Western name from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Europe), “broad-faced" or "well-watered”. Compare all

Unicode

U+94D5 in CJK Unified Ideographs