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钎

qiān

Character Traditional 釺

What 钎 means

1. a drill (for boring through rock)

Words starting with 钎

• 钎子qiān zihammer drill for boring through rock

Words containing 钎

• 炮钎pào qiāna drill; a hammer drill for boring through rock; same as 钎子
• 钢钎gāng qiān(mining) drill rod; drill steel

Characters that look like 钎

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

• 科kēbranch of study; administrative section; division
• 钟zhōnghandleless cup; goblet; (bound form) to concentrate (one's affection etc); variant of 钟
• 针zhēnneedle; pin; injection
• 钚bùplutonium (chemistry)
• 秆gǎnstalks of grain
• 狎xiá(bound form; literary) to take liberties with sb or sth; to treat frivolously

Sounds the same

Read qiān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 铅lead (chemistry)
• 千thousand
• 签to sign one's name; to write brief comments on a document…
• 牵to lead along; to pull (an animal on a tether); (bound form) to involve
• 谦modest
• 迁to move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc)
• 骞(literary) to hold high
• 搴to seize; to pull; to hold up the hem of clothes
• 褰to lift (clothes, sheets); lower garments
• 悭stingy
• 仟thousand (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
• 芊green; luxuriant growth