镨

Praseodymium Pr · 59

pǔ

solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal

+ 普 phonetic
from praseodymium =

镨 pǔ

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Praseodymium

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 镨, traditional 鐠.

1900 鐠 pǔ 亞泉雜誌 Yàquán Zázhì, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉) proposed by Dù Yàquán and kept

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 镤 pú Protactinium.

Elsewhere

Japanese プラセオジム Korean 프라세오디뮴 Vietnamese praseodymi

Western name from Greek πράσιος δίδυμος (prasios didymos), “green twin”. Compare all

Unicode

U+9568 in CJK Unified Ideographs