Technetium Tc · 43
solid metal · period 5, group 7 · d-block
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Technetium
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 锝, traditional 鍀, Taiwan 鎝 dā.
- 1980 鎷 mǎ 新華詞典 Xīnhuá Cídiǎn, Commercial Press for masurium, the disputed 1925 claim; 鎷 had earlier meant samarium
- 1991 鍀 dé 化學名詞 Chemical Terms, China National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technologies (全國科學技術名詞審定委員會)
- today 鎝 dā 臺灣正體（國家教育研究院） Current Taiwan standard, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese テクネチウム Korean 테크네튬 Vietnamese tecneti
Western name from Greek τεχνητός (technetos), “artificial”. Compare all
Unicode
U+951D in CJK Unified Ideographs