Silicon Si · 14

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 硅, traditional 硅, Taiwan 矽 xì.

1. 1868 玻精 格物入門 Géwù Rùmén, W. A. P. Martin (丁韙良), Tongwen College
2. 1870 玻 化學初階 Huàxué Chūjiē, John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)
3. 1871 夕里西恩 金石識別 Jīnshí Shíbié, D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
4. 1871 矽 化學鑑原 Huàxué Jiànyuán, Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal
5. 1873 砂精 shājīng 化學指南 Huàxué Zhǐnán, Anatole Billequin (畢利幹) & Lián Zǐzhèn (聯子振) “essence of sand”
6. 1905 矽 xī 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
7. 1933 矽 xī 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation adopted over 硅, which came from the Japanese 珪素
8. 1955 硅 guī 無機化合物名詞審查 Inorganic terms review, Chemical terms committee, PRC changed on the mainland because 矽 xī was a homophone of 硒 selenium and 錫 tin
9. today 矽 xì 臺灣正體（國家教育研究院） Current Taiwan standard, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan