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铯

sè

Character Traditional 銫

What 铯 means

1. cesium (chemistry)

Characters that look like 铯

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

• 跑pǎoto run; to run away; to escape
• 锐ruìacute
• 艳yànbright; fresh and attractive; glamorous; (bound form) amorous; romantic…
• 铣xǐto mill (machining); Taiwan pr. xiǎn
• 铢zhūtwenty-fourth part of a tael (2 or 3 grams)
• 铠kǎiarmor

Sounds the same

Read sè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 色color; look; appearance
• 塞(bound form) to block; to obstruct
• 啬stingy
• 涩astringent; tart; acerbity
• 瑟a type of standing harp, smaller than konghou 箜篌, with 5-25 strings
• 穑gather in harvest
• 濇grating (of surfaces)
• 璱bright (of jade)
• 譅talkative; loquacious
• 轖leather top of a cart
• 歰old variant of 涩
• 歮old variant of 涩

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read sè correctly.
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