antimony (stibium)

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangdiːl

說文解字

鎕銻也。从金弟聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

tī, tí antimony (stibium) Simplified

Components

Meaning component
jīn metal

metal

Sound component
dì, di younger brother

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode