yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
波

波 bō

“waves, breakers; undulations”

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

Carries Bohrium

钅 metal → solid metal
+
波 bō
=
bō · Bh 107

Transliterates syllable 1 of boh·rium: bohrium → bō.

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.