yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
钷

Promethium Pm · 61

pǒ

solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 叵 phonetic
from promethium =
钷 pǒ

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Promethium

History of the character

Every form found in the sources, from the first missionary chemistry books of the 1850s to the current standards. Hover a dot for the source. Simplified 钷, traditional 鉕.

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鉕 pǒ
1991 · 化學名詞 · Chemical Terms (1991) — China National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technologies (全國科學技術名詞審定委員會) Named in Chemical Terms (1991), which gave technetium, promethium, astatine and francium their final characters.
  1. 1991 鉕 pǒ 化學名詞 Chemical Terms, China National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technologies (全國科學技術名詞審定委員會) Named in Chemical Terms (1991), which gave technetium, promethium, astatine and francium their final characters.

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 钋 pō Polonium.

Elsewhere

Japanese プロメチウム Korean 프로메튬 Vietnamese promethi

Western name from Greek Προμηθεύς (Prometheus), “forethought”. Compare all

Unicode

U+94B7 in CJK Unified Ideographs