yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

“waves, breakers; undulations”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese bo1. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Bohrium

metal → solid metal
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Transliterates syllable 1 of boh·rium: bohrium.

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.