yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

“our, us, i, me, my, we”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese ngo5. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Osmium

metal → solid metal
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é · Os 76

Transliterates syllable 1 of os·mium: osmiumé.

The reading drifted: the component is read wǒ, the element é.