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铋

cjk unified ideograph-94cb

Chinese character for bismuth

Bismuth in Chinese is written 铋; Mandarin reads it bì, with a falling tone. In the character, 钅 marks a metal and 必 points to the sound. Traditional Chinese writes the same term 鉍.

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What 铋 means

It is the Chinese character for bismuth.

Mandarin reads it bì: begin with a p sound without a strong puff of air, say i, and let the pitch fall. In the simplified form, 钅 marks a metal and 必 cues the sound.

A Chinese-language science book from 1855 translated some element names. In 1871, translators Xu Shou and John Fryer proposed a one-character method that joins a sound to a material marker; chemistry books in the 1870s still varied.

Technical and neutral: it names the element bismuth in Chinese writing.

Questions people ask

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Why does 铋 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type 铋

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 94CB, then Alt+X to get 铋.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-94cb”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 94cb, then Enter or Space.
HTML
铋
CSS
\94CB
Simplified Chinese Pinyin
On a Simplified Chinese Pinyin keyboard, type bi without the tone mark, then choose 铋 from the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
铋
HTML hex
铋
CSS content
content: "\94CB";
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URL encoded
%E9%93%8B
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes

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