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铵

ǎn

Character Traditional 銨

What 铵 means

1. ammonium

Words containing 铵

• 碳铵tàn ǎnammonium bicarbonate (abbr. for 碳酸氢铵
• 氯化铵lǜ huà ǎnammonium chloride
• 硝酸铵xiāo suān ǎnammonium nitrate
• 硫酸铵liú suān ǎnammonium sulfate
• 碳酸氢铵tàn suān qīng ǎnammonium bicarbonate

Characters built on 安

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

• 案àn(legal) case; incident; record
• 按ànto press; to push; to leave aside or shelve
• 氨ānammonia
• 胺àn(chemistry) amine; colloquial pr. ān; Taiwan pr. ān
• 鞍ān(bound form) saddle
• 晏yànlate; quiet
• 桉ānEucalyptus globulus; Taiwan pr. àn

Characters that look like 铵

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

• 铺pūto spread; to display; to set up
• 锂lǐlithium (chemistry)
• 铰jiǎoscissors; to cut (with scissors)
• 锆gàozirconium (chemistry)
• 锉cuò(literary) to fracture (a bone); (literary) to cut; to hack
• 铿kēng(onomatopoeia) clang; jingling of metals; to strike

Sounds the same

Read ǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 俺I (northern dialects)
• 唵(interjection) oh!; (dialect) to stuff sth in one's mouth…
• 垵(used in place names); variant of 埯
• 揞to apply (medicinal powder to a wound); to cover up; to conceal
• 埯hole in the ground to plant seeds in; to make a hole for seeds; to dibble