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钲

zhēng

Character Traditional 鉦

What 钲 means

1. gong used to halt troops

Characters built on 正

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

• 政zhèngpolitical; politics; government
• 证zhèngto admonish; variant of 证
• 整zhěng(bound form) whole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole…
• 征zhēngjourney; trip; expedition
• 症zhèngdisease; illness
• 怔zhēng(bound form) startled; terrified; panic-stricken

Characters that look like 钲

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

• 铝lǚaluminum (chemistry)
• 铅qiānlead (chemistry)
• 钛tàititanium (chemistry)
• 钴gǔ(chemistry) cobalt (Taiwan pr. gū); used in 钴𬭁gǔ mǔ
• 钰yùtreasure; hard metal
• 铤dìngingot

Sounds the same

Read zhēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 争to strive for; to vie for; to argue or debate
• 征journey; trip; expedition
• 睁to open (one's eyes)
• 蒸to evaporate; (of cooking) to steam; torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old)
• 怔(bound form) startled; terrified; panic-stricken
• 正first month of the lunar year
• 挣used in 挣扎
• 症abdominal tumor; bowel obstruction; (fig.) sticking point
• 铮clang of metals; small gong
• 丁used in 丁丁
• 狰used in 狰狞
• 峥used in 峥嵘