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铼

lái

Character Traditional 錸

What 铼 means

1. rhenium (chemistry)

Characters built on 来

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

• 莱láiname of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album
• 睐làito glance; to look askance at
• 徕láiused in 招徕
• 涞láibrook; ripple
• 赉làito bestow; to confer
• 崃láiname of a mountain in Sichuan

Characters that look like 铼

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

• 锡xītin (chemistry); to bestow; to confer
• 锅guōpot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing
• 琥hǔused in 琥珀
• 铢zhūtwenty-fourth part of a tael (2 or 3 grams)
• 锭dìng(weaving) spindle; ingot; pressed cake of medicine etc
• 锉cuò(literary) to fracture (a bone); (literary) to cut; to hack

Sounds the same

Read lái, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 来to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)…
• 莱name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album
• 徕used in 招徕
• 涞brook; ripple
• 箂(bamboo)
• 郲name of a country in Spring and Autumn period in modern Shandong, destroyed by Qi 齐
• 崃name of a mountain in Sichuan
• 𡥧last
• 梾used in 梾木
• 騋mare
• 𱉵used in 鶆䴈
• 𱇭see 鲥鱼