铱

Iridium Ir · 77

yī

solid metal · period 6, group 9 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal

+ 衣 phonetic
from iridium =

铱 yī

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Iridium

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 铱, traditional 銥.

1905 銥 yī 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 钇 yǐ Yttrium, 镱 yì Ytterbium.

Elsewhere

Japanese イリジウム Korean 이리듐 Vietnamese iridi

Western name from Greek via Latin ἴρις (genitive: ἴριδος) (iris), “of rainbows”. Compare all

Unicode

U+94F1 in CJK Unified Ideographs