yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

“a thicket”

On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese duk6. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.

Carries Protactinium

metal → solid metal
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Transliterates syllable 1 of pro·tac·ti·nium: protactinium.

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.