镱

Ytterbium Yb · 70

yì

solid metal · period 6 · f-block· lanthanide

Anatomy

钅 radical 金 jīn
metal → solid metal

+ 意 phonetic
from ytterbium =

镱 yì

Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Ytterbium

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 镱, traditional 鐿.

1900 鐿 yì 亞泉雜誌 Yàquán Zázhì, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉) proposed by Dù Yàquán and kept

Homophones

Same syllable, different tone: 钇 yǐ Yttrium, 铱 yī Iridium.

Elsewhere

Japanese イッテルビウム Korean 이터븀 Vietnamese ytterbi

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

Unicode

U+9571 in CJK Unified Ideographs