yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

měi

“beautiful, pretty; pleasing”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese mei5. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Magnesium

metal → solid metal
+
měi
=
měi · Mg 12

Transliterates syllable 1 of mag·ne·sium: magnesiumměi.

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.