yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
菐

菐 pú

“a thicket”

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

Carries Protactinium

钅 metal → solid metal
+
菐 pú
=
镤 pú · Pa 91

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

The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.