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铅

qiān

HSK 2 Character Traditional 鉛

What 铅 means

1. lead (chemistry)

Other readings

铅 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• yánused in {铅山|Yán shān} (the name of a place in Jiangxi)
• qiānold variant of {铅|qiān}

Example sentences

• 用铅笔写。
  Write it in pencil.
• 我没铅笔。
  I don't have a pencil.
• 铅笔长吗？
  Is the pencil long?
• 铅笔头钝了。
  Qiānbǐ tóu dùn le.
  The point of the pencil has become dull.
• 你有铅笔吗？
  Do you have any pencils?
• 请用铅笔写。
  Please write with a pencil.

Words starting with 铅

• 铅笔qiān bǐ(lead) pencil
• 铅笔盒qiān bǐ hépencil case
• 铅字qiān zì(printing) type; movable letters
• 铅带qiān dàiweight belt
• 铅条qiān tiáostrip of lead; (printing) slug; lead (for a propelling pencil)
• 铅球qiān qiúshot put (athletics event)
• 铅矿qiān kuànglead ore
• 铅垂线qiān chuí xiànplumbline
• 铅山县Yán shān XiànYanshan, a county in Shangrao City 上饶市
• 铅笔刀qiān bǐ dāopencil sharpener
• 铅管工qiān guǎn gōngplumber
• 铅酸蓄电池qiān suān xù diàn chílead-acid accumulator; battery (e.g. in car)
• 铅锤qiān chuíbob of a plumbline
• 铅箔qiān bólead foil
• 铅山Yán shānsee 铅山县

Words containing 铅

• 灌铅guàn qiānto weight sth with lead; (of a die) loaded; to pour molten lead into the mouth…
• 锡铅xī qiānpewter (tin alloy)
• 削铅笔xiāo qiān bǐto sharpen a pencil
• 方铅矿fāng qiān kuànggalena
• 削铅笔机xiāo qiān bǐ jīpencil sharpener (mechanical or electric)
• 自动铅笔zì dòng qiān bǐmechanical pencil; propelling pencil

Characters that look like 铅

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

• 铝lǚaluminum (chemistry)
• 铂bóplatinum (chemistry)
• 馅xiànfilling; stuffing (for dumplings, pies etc)
• 钴gǔ(chemistry) cobalt (Taiwan pr. gū); used in 钴𬭁gǔ mǔ
• 钲zhēnggong used to halt troops
• 铪hāhafnium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read qiān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 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
• 钎a drill (for boring through rock)