铀

Uranium U · 92

yóu

solid metal · period 7 · f-block· actinide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal

+ 由 phonetic
from uranium =

铀 yóu

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Uranium

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 铀, traditional 鈾.

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

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 铕 yǒu Europium.

Elsewhere

Japanese ウラン Korean 우라늄 Vietnamese urani

Western name from Greek via Latin Οὐρανός (Ouranos); "Uranus", “sky”. Compare all

Unicode

U+94C0 in CJK Unified Ideographs