yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
钛

Titanium Ti · 22

tài

solid metal · period 4, group 4 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 太 phonetic
from titanium =
钛 tài

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Titanium

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 钛, traditional 鈦.

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釱 dì
1870 · 化學初階 · Huàxué Chūjiē (1870) — John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然) an existing character borrowed for the metal
鐟 zān
1905 · 化學新教科書 · Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū (1905) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
鈦 tài
1933 · 化學命名原則 · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature (1933) — Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation
  1. 1870 釱 dì 化學初階 Huàxué Chūjiē, John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然) an existing character borrowed for the metal
  2. 1905 鐟 zān 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
  3. 1933 鈦 tài 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 チタン Korean 타이타늄 Vietnamese titan

Western name from Greek Τιτάν, : Τιτάνος (Titan), “Titans", sons of Gaia”. Compare all

Unicode

U+949B in CJK Unified Ideographs