U+9487 "钇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9487 "钇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (also used in Japanese and Korean) that represents the element yttrium, a silvery metallic chemical element with the symbol Y and atomic number 39. In modern Chinese, this simplified form is used for the element's name, officially adopted in the mid-20th century as part of the systematic naming of elements with a metal radical (钅) combined with the phonetic component 乙 (yǐ). The character is composed of the radical meaning "gold" or "metal" on the left and the phonetic component for pronunciation on the right, making it an example of a phono-semantic compound in CJK script.