yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
锇

Osmium Os · 76

é

solid metal · period 6, group 8 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 我 phonetic
from osmium =
锇 é

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Osmium

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 锇, traditional 鋨.

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銤 mǐ
1901 · 化學名目與命名法 · Chemical Terms and Nomenclature (1901) — Educational Association of China (益智書會) the Educational Association wrote 金 + 區; 銤 was later reused for americium1905 · 化學新教科書 · Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū (1905) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
鋨 é
1933 · 化學命名原則 · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature (1933) — Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation
  1. 1901 銤 mǐ 化學名目與命名法 Chemical Terms and Nomenclature, Educational Association of China (益智書會) the Educational Association wrote 金 + 區; 銤 was later reused for americium
  2. 1905 銤 mǐ 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
  3. 1933 鋨 é 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 オスミウム Korean 오스뮴 Vietnamese osmi

Western name from Greek via Neo-Latin ὀσμή (osme), “a smell”. Compare all

Unicode

U+9507 in CJK Unified Ideographs