yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

“crow, rook, raven; black, dark”

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

Carries Tungsten

metal → solid metal
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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.