yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
土

土 tǔ

“soil, earth; items made of earth”

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

Carries Thorium

钅 metal → solid metal
+
土 tǔ
=
钍 tǔ · Th 90

Transliterates syllable 1 of tho·rium: thorium → tǔ.

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.