yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
铊

Thallium Tl · 81

tā

solid metal · period 6, group 13 · p-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 它 phonetic
from thallium =
铊 tā

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Thallium

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 铊, traditional 鉈.

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鈶 sì
1905 · 化學新教科書 · Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū (1905) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
鉈 tā
1933 · 化學命名原則 · Principles of Chemical Nomenclature (1933) — Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation
  1. 1905 鈶 sì 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
  2. 1933 鉈 tā 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 タリウム Korean 탈륨 Vietnamese tali

Western name from Greek θαλλός (thallos), “green twig”. Compare all

Unicode

U+94CA in CJK Unified Ideographs