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钾

jiǎ

Character Traditional 鉀

What 钾 means

1. potassium (chemistry)

Example sentences

• 用本生灯加热钾，火焰就会呈现淡紫色。
  Potassium, heated with a Bunsen burner, gives the flame a lilac color.

Words starting with 钾

• 钾盐jiǎ yánpotassium chloride KCl

Words containing 钾

• 山奈钾shān nài jiǎpotassium cyanide KCN
• 氯化钾lǜ huà jiǎpotassium chloride
• 氯酸钾lǜ suān jiǎpotassium chlorate
• 溴化钾xiù huà jiǎpotassium bromide
• 硝酸钾xiāo suān jiǎpotassium nitrate
• 硫酸钾liú suān jiǎpotassium sulfate
• 碳酸钾tàn suān jiǎpotassium carbonate
• 苛性钾kē xìng jiǎcaustic potash; potassium hydroxide KOH
• 山梨酸钾shān lí suān jiǎpotassium sorbate, E202 (a food preservative)
• 氢氧化钾qīng yǎng huà jiǎpotassium hydroxide
• 醋磺内酯钾cù huáng nèi zhǐ jiǎacesulfame potassium; acesulfame K (an artificial sweetener)
• 碘化钾diǎn huà jiǎpotassium iodide
• 高锰酸钾gāo měng suān jiǎpotassium permanganate
• 氰化钾qíng huà jiǎpotassium cyanide KCN

Characters built on 甲

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

• 匣xiábox
• 岬jiǎcape (geography); headland
• 胛jiǎshoulder blade
• 狎xiá(bound form; literary) to take liberties with sb or sth; to treat frivolously
• 柙xiácage; pen; scabbard

Characters that look like 钾

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

• 特tèspecial; unique; distinguished
• 钟zhōnghandleless cup; goblet; (bound form) to concentrate (one's affection etc); variant of 钟
• 钞chāomoney; paper money; variant of 抄
• 铐kàoshackles; fetters; manacle
• 铆mǎoto fasten with a rivet; to rivet; to hammer in a rivet…
• 铈shìcerium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read jiǎ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 假fake; false; artificial
• 甲first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; (used for an unspecified person or thing)…
• 岬cape (geography); headland
• 胛shoulder blade
• 榎(evergreen shrub); Celtis sinensis
• 斝small jade cup with ears
• 槚Catalpa, a genus of mostly deciduous trees; old term for Camellia sinensis, the tea plant…
• 婽good
• 椵(grapefruit)
• 瘕obstruction in the intestine
• 嘏far; grand
• 贾surname Jia