yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
镥

Lutetium Lu · 71

lǔ

solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 鲁 phonetic
from lutetium =
镥 lǔ

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Lutetium

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 镥, traditional 鑥, Taiwan 鎦 liú.

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鎦 liú
1933 · 化學命名原則 · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature (1933) — Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translationtoday · 臺灣正體（國家教育研究院） · Current Taiwan standard — National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan
鑥 lǔ
1955 · 無機化合物名詞審查 · Inorganic terms review (1955) — Chemical terms committee, PRC changed on the mainland because 鎦 liú was a homophone of 硫 sulfur
  1. 1933 鎦 liú 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation
  2. 1955 鑥 lǔ 無機化合物名詞審查 Inorganic terms review, Chemical terms committee, PRC changed on the mainland because 鎦 liú was a homophone of 硫 sulfur
  3. today 鎦 liú 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: 铝 lǚ Aluminium, 氯 lǜ Chlorine, 𬬻 lú Rutherfordium.

Elsewhere

Japanese ルテチウム Korean 루테튬 Vietnamese luteti

Western name from Latin Lutetia, “Paris”. Compare all

Unicode

U+9565 in CJK Unified Ideographs