yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

“eye; look, see; division, topic; Kangxi radical 109”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese muk6. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Molybdenum

metal → solid metal
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· Mo 42

Transliterates syllable 1 of mo·lyb·de·num: molybdenum.

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.