碲

碲 U+78B2, 碲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78B2 ← 碱 [U+78B1] CJK Unified Ideographs 碳 → [U+78B3]

Translingual

Han character

碲 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一口卜月月 (MRYBB), four-corner 1062₇, composition ⿰石帝)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 833, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24362
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2445, character 3
• Unihan data for U+78B2

Chinese

simp. and trad.		碲

Chemical element
Te
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Next: 碘 (diǎn) (I)

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 石 (“stone”) + phonetic 帝.

Etymology

From New Latin tellurium.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dì (di⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dai³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tè

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dì
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dì
    • Wade–Giles: ti⁴
    • Yale: dì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dih
    • Palladius: ди (di)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dai³
    • Yale: dai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐi̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tè
    • Tâi-lô: tè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dex
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /te⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /te²¹/

Definitions

碲

1. (chemistry) tellurium

Japanese

Kanji

碲

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): てい (tei)

Korean

Hanja

碲 • (je) (hangeul 제, revised je, McCune–Reischauer che, Yale cey)

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