yuánzì Chinese characters of the chemical elements
钇

Yttrium Y · 39

yǐ

solid metal · period 5, group 3 · d-block

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal
+ 乙 phonetic
from yttrium =
钇 yǐ

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Yttrium

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 钇, traditional 釔.

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釱 dì
1905 · 化學新教科書 · Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū (1905) — Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
釔 yǐ
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 釱 dì 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
  2. 1933 釔 yǐ 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 镱 yì Ytterbium, 铱 yī Iridium.

Elsewhere

Japanese イットリウム Korean 이트륨 Vietnamese yttri

Western name from Swedish Ytterby, “proper name”. Compare all

Unicode

U+9487 in CJK Unified Ideographs