yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
铥

Thulium Tm · 69

diū

solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 丢 phonetic
from thulium
=
铥 diū

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Thulium

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 铥, traditional 銩.

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銩 diū
1900 · 亞泉雜誌 · Yàquán Zázhì (1900) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉) proposed by Dù Yàquán and kept
  1. 1900 銩 diū 亞泉雜誌 Yàquán Zázhì, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉) proposed by Dù Yàquán and kept

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese ツリウム Korean 툴륨 Vietnamese thuli

Western name from Greek Θούλη (Thoúlē){{cite web, “Thule”. Compare all

Unicode

U+94E5 in CJK Unified Ideographs