锡
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tin (chemistry); to bestow; to confer; to grant; Taiwan pr. [xi2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 金 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 錫
- Common rank
- #1,426
- Unicode
- U+9521
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
tin · Heisig RSH #2132
metal + 易 easy
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 锡
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 察布查尔锡伯自治县 | Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County, in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[Yi1 l… | |
| 锡山区 | Xishan, a district of Wuxi City 無錫市|无锡市[Wu2 xi1 Shi4], Jiangsu | |
| 无锡市 | Wuxi, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省[Jiang1 su1 Sheng3] | |
| 马中锡 | Ma Zhongxi, Ming writer (1446-1512), author of the fable The Wolf of Zhongshan 中山狼傳|中山狼传[Z… | |
| 锡安山 | Mount Zion | |
| 麦卡锡主义 | McCarthyism | |
| 锡霍特·阿林山脉 | Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island | |
| 洛锡安区 | Lothian, Scottish region around Edinburgh | |
| 锡尔河 | Syr Darya, Central Asian river, flowing from Kyrgiz Republic through Kazakhstan to the Ara… | |
| 锡霍特·阿林 | Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island | |
| 锡克教 | Sikhism | |
| 锡当河 | Sittang River of central Myanmar (Burma), between Irrawaddy and Salween rivers | |
| 拉瓦锡 | Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), French nobleman and scientist, considered the father of mod… | |
| 锡伯族 | Xibe ethnic group | |
| 锡拉库萨 | Syracuse, Sicily | |
| 锡嘴雀 | (bird species of China) hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) | |
| 锡霍特山脉 | Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island | |
| 金银铜铁锡 | the five metals: gold, silver, copper, iron, tin | |
| 锡山 | see 錫山區|锡山区[Xi1 shan1 Qu1] | |
| 无锡 | see 無錫市|无锡市[Wu2 xi1 Shi4] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 易 — compare how they read.