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氟

fú

Character

What 氟 means

1. fluorine (chemistry)

Example sentences

• 大多数牙膏里含有氟化物。
  Dàduōshù yágāo lǐ hányǒu fúhuàwù.
  Most toothpastes contain fluoride.
• 哥伦布曾经在当地人偷了他的鹦鹉之后决定完全地烧毁整个村庄。因为他不能焚烧他们的水，所以他感到失望。于是他发明了氟。
  Gēlúnbù céngjīng zài dāngdì rén tōu le tā de yīngwǔ zhīhòu juédìng wánquán de shāo huǐ zhěnggè cūnzhuāng. yīnwèi tā bù néng fénshāo tāmen de shuǐ, suǒyǐ tā gǎndào shīwàng. Yúshì tā fāmíng le fú.
  Christopher Columbus once decided to burn absolutely everything in an entire village after one of the natives stole his parrot. He was disappointed that he couldn't burn their water. So he invented fluorine.

Words starting with 氟

• 氟化fú huàfluoridation; fluorination
• 氟石fú shífluorite CaF2; fluorspar; fluor
• 氟利昂fú lì ángfreon (chemistry)
• 氟化物fú huà wùfluoride
• 氟硅酸fú guī suānfluorosilicic acid H2SiF6; fluorosilicate
• 氟骨症fú gǔ zhèngosteofluorosis; skeletal fluorosis
• 氟化氢fú huà qīnghydrofluoric acid
• 氟骨病fú gǔ bìngsee 氟骨症

Words containing 氟

• 加氟jiā fúto fluoridate (a public water supply)
• 铁氟龙Tiě fú lóng(Taiwan; loanword) Teflon
• 硅酸氟铝guī suān fú lǚaluminum fluorosilicate
• 左氧氟沙星zuǒ yǎng fú shā xīnglevofloxacin (broad-spectrum antibacterial agent)
• 氢氟酸qīng fú suānhydrofluoric acid HF
• 丙酸氟替卡松bǐng suān fú tì kǎ sōngfluticasone propionate
• 氢氟烃qīng fú tīnghydrofluorocarbon
• 三氟化硼sān fú huà péngboron trifluoride
• 六氟化硫liù fú huà liúsulfur hexafluoride
• 六氟化铀liù fú huà yóuuranium hexafluoride (UF6)
• 四氟化硅sì fú huà guīsilicon tetrafluoride SiF4
• 四氟化铀sì fú huà yóuuranium tetrafluoride (UF4)
• 聚四氟乙烯jù sì fú yǐ xīpolytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), trademarked as Teflon

Characters built on 弗

These share the phonetic component 弗 (fú), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 佛fúused in 仿佛
• 拂fúto flick; to brush off; (of a breeze) to brush lightly over
• 茀fúluxuriant growth
• 绋fúheavy rope; rope of a bier

Characters that look like 氟

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 氧yǎngoxygen (chemistry)
• 氢qīnghydrogen (chemistry)
• 氨ānammonia
• 氦hàihelium (chemistry)
• 氩yàargon (chemistry)
• 氡dōngradon (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read fú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 服clothes; dress; garment
• 福good fortune; happiness; luck
• 符mark; sign; talisman
• 佛used in 仿佛
• 幅width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures
• 扶to support with the hand; to help sb up; to support oneself by holding onto something
• 伏to lean over; to fall (go down); to hide (in ambush)
• 浮to float; superficial; floating
• 辐spoke of a wheel
• 俘to take prisoner; prisoner of war
• 袱(bound form) a cloth used to wrap or cover
• 弗(literary) not; used in transliteration