yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

bo bǔ

“fortune telling; prophesy”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese baak6. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Polonium

metal → solid metal
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bo bǔ
=
· Po 84

Transliterates syllable 1 of po·lo·nium: polonium.

The reading drifted: the component is read bo, the element pō.