yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
忒

忒 tè

“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

钅 metal → solid metal
+
忒 tè
=
铽 tè · Tb 65

Transliterates syllable 1 of ter·bium: terbium → tè.

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.