yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
鿏

Meitnerium Mt · 109

mài

solid metal · period 7, group 9 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 麦 phonetic
from meitnerium
=
鿏 mài

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Meitnerium

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 鿏, traditional 䥑.

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䥑 mài
1998 · 101–109號元素中文命名 · Names of elements 101–109 (1998) — CNCTST, after the 1997 IUPAC decision
  1. 1998 䥑 mài 101–109號元素中文命名 Names of elements 101–109, CNCTST, after the 1997 IUPAC decision

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese マイトネリウム Korean 마이트너륨 Vietnamese meitneri

Western name from Meitner, Lise. Compare all

Unicode

U+9FCF in CJK Unified Ideographs

Element discovered 1982.