釷

See also: 钍

釷 U+91F7, 釷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91F7 ← 釶 [U+91F6] CJK Unified Ideographs 釸 → [U+91F8]

Translingual

Han character

釷 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 金土 (CG), four-corner 8411₀, composition ⿰釒土)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1297, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40197
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4171, character 1
• Unihan data for U+91F7

Chinese

trad.		釷
simp.		钍

Chemical element
Th
Previous: 錒／锕 (ā) (Ac)
Next: 鏷／镤 (pú) (Pa)

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 土 (tǔ).

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin thorium.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǔ (tu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou²
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵thu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǔ
    • Wade–Giles: tʻu³
    • Yale: tǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuu
    • Palladius: ту (tu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tou²
    • Yale: tóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯³⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵thu
    • MiniDict: thu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²thu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tʰu³⁴/

Definitions

釷

1. (chemistry) thorium

Compounds

• 硝酸釷／硝酸钍 (xiāosuāntǔ)
• 釷石／钍石

 

References

• “釷”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

釷

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. (chemistry) thorium

Readings

• Kan-on: と (to)
• Kun: トリウム (toriumu)