碲

Tellurium Te · 52

dì

solid non-metal · period 5, group 16 · p-block

Anatomy

石 radical 石 shí
stone → solid non-metal

+ 帝 phonetic
from tellurium =

碲 dì

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Tellurium

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 碲, traditional 碲.

1905 碲 dì 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 镝 dī Dysprosium.

Elsewhere

Japanese テルル Korean 텔루륨 Vietnamese telua

Western name from Latin Tellus, “Earth”. Compare all

Unicode

U+78B2 in CJK Unified Ideographs