yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

“no, not; un-; negative prefix”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese bat1. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Plutonium

metal → solid metal
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· Pu 94

Transliterates syllable 1 of plu·to·nium: plutonium.

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.