Samarium Sm · 62
solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide
Anatomy
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.
- 1920 鎷 mǎ 曾提議 Proposed, not adopted, Various later reused for masurium
- 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