铅
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lead (chemistry)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 金 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 鉛
- Common rank
- #2,292
- Unicode
- U+94C5
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 铅
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 自动铅笔 | mechanical pencil; propelling pencil | |
| 铅山县 | Yanshan, a county in Shangrao City 上饒市|上饶市[Shang4 rao2 Shi4], Jiangxi | |
| 铅管工 | plumber | |
| 铅笔刀 | pencil sharpener; CL:把[ba3] | |
| 铅酸蓄电池 | lead-acid accumulator; battery (e.g. in car) | |
| 铅山 | see 鉛山縣|铅山县[Yan2 shan1 Xian4] | |
| 方铅矿 | galena | |
| 铅字 | (printing) type; movable letters | |
| 削铅笔机 | pencil sharpener (mechanical or electric) | |
| 铅球 | shot put (athletics event) | |
| 铅垂线 | plumbline | |
| 铅带 | weight belt | |
| 铅条 | strip of lead; (printing) slug; lead (for a propelling pencil) | |
| 铅笔 | (lead) pencil; CL:支[zhi1],枝[zhi1],桿|杆[gan3] | |
| 铅笔盒 | pencil case | |
| 削铅笔 | to sharpen a pencil | |
| 铅矿 | lead ore | |
| 锡铅 | pewter (tin alloy) | |
| 灌铅 | to weight sth with lead; (of a die) loaded; to pour molten lead into the mouth (as a punis… | |
| 铅锤 | bob of a plumbline |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 几 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 几 sound part | small table; how many; a few, some | |
| 肌 | flesh, skin; muscle, tissue; meat on bones | |
| 饥 | hungry, starving; hunger, famine | |
| 叽 | to grumble; to sigh | |
| 矶 | jetty, reef; breakwater, eddy | |
| 讥 | to ridicule, to mock, to jeer | |
| 玑 | an oblong pearl | |
| 虮 | nits, lice | |
| 麂 | a species of deer | |
| 処 | place, locale; department |