yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

“excessive; too; very-usually of objectionable things; to err; to mistake; changeable”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese tik1. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Terbium

metal → solid metal
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· Tb 65

Transliterates syllable 1 of ter·bium: terbium.

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.