Antimony Sb · 51
solid metal · period 5, group 15 · p-block
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Antimony
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 锑, traditional 銻, Taiwan 銻 tì.
- 1905 銻 tì 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese アンチモン Korean 안티모니 Vietnamese antimon
Western name from Greek? via Medieval Latin and Middle English , “various”. Compare all
Unicode
U+9511 in CJK Unified Ideographs