yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

“soil, earth; items made of earth”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese tou2. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Thorium

metal → solid metal
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· Th 90

Transliterates syllable 1 of tho·rium: thorium.

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.