Neodymium Nd · 60
solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Neodymium
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 钕, traditional 釹.
- 1920 釢 nǎi 曾提議 Proposed, not adopted, Various later reused for neptunium, then dropped for both
- 1933 釹 nǚ 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese ネオジム Korean 네오디뮴 Vietnamese neodymi
Western name from Greek νέος δίδυμος (neos didymos), “new twin”. Compare all
Unicode
U+9495 in CJK Unified Ideographs