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铹

láo

Character Traditional 鐒

What 铹 means

1. lawrencium (chemistry)

Characters built on 劳

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

• 捞lāoto fish up; to dredge up
• 唠láoused in 唠叨
• 涝làoflooded
• 崂láoname of a mountain in Shandong
• 痨láotuberculosis

Sounds the same

Read láo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 劳(bound form) to toil; labor; (bound form) laborer; (bound form) meritorious deed
• 牢(literary) pen; fold (for livestock); prison; jail; firm; secure; fast
• 唠used in 唠叨
• 崂name of a mountain in Shandong
• 痨tuberculosis
• 醪wine or liquor with sediment
• 哰used in 㘓哰
• 窂variant of 牢

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read láo correctly.
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