yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
乌

乌 wū

“crow, rook, raven; black, dark”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese wu1. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Tungsten

钅 metal → solid metal
+
乌 wū
=
钨 wū · W 74

Not a plain transliteration: the component was chosen for its meaning, or the name is older than the system.

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.