yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
钐

Samarium Sm · 62

shān

solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 彡 phonetic
from samarium
=
钐 shān

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Samarium

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 钐, traditional 釤.

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鎷 mǎ
1920 · 曾提議 · Proposed, not adopted — Various later reused for masurium
釤 shān
1933 · 化學命名原則 · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature (1933) — Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation
  1. 1920 鎷 mǎ 曾提議 Proposed, not adopted, Various later reused for masurium
  2. 1933 釤 shān 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese サマリウム Korean 사마륨 Vietnamese samari

Western name from Samarsky-Bykhovets, Vassili. Compare all

Unicode

U+9490 in CJK Unified Ideographs