yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements

Tennessine Ts · 117

tián

solid non-metal · period 7, group 17 · p-block

Anatomy

radical shí
stone → solid non-metal
+ phonetic
from tennessine
=
tián

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Tennessine

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 , traditional .

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tián
2017 · 113、115、117、118號元素中文定名 · Names of elements 113, 115, 117, 118 (2017) — CNCTST with the State Language Commission
  1. 2017 tián 113、115、117、118號元素中文定名 Names of elements 113, 115, 117, 118, CNCTST with the State Language Commission

Homophones

No other element shares this syllable.

Elsewhere

Japanese テネシン Korean 테네신 Vietnamese tennessine

Western name from Cherokee via English Tennessee. Compare all

Unicode

U+9FEC in CJK Unified Ideographs

Element discovered 2010.