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铿

kēng

Character Traditional 鏗

What 铿 means

1. onomatopoeiaclang
2. jingling of metals
3. to strike

Example sentences

• 这个孩子正在铿铿锵锵地玩着他的玩具。
  Zhège háizi zhèngzài kēng kēngqiāng qiāng de wán zhe tā de wánjù.
  The kid is clanging away with his toy.

Words starting with 铿

• 铿锵kēng qiāngsonorous; resounding; fig. resounding words
• 铿然kēng rán(literary) resonant

Characters that look like 铿

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

• 锤chuíhammer; to hammer into shape; weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance)
• 锂lǐlithium (chemistry)
• 铨quánto estimate; to select
• 铵ǎnammonium
• 锭dìng(weaving) spindle; ingot; pressed cake of medicine etc
• 锘nuònobelium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read kēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 坑pit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive
• 吭to utter
• 牼shank bone of ox
• 硁obstinate
• 硻obstinate
• 誙(arch.) definitely; sure!
• 坈old variant of 坑
• 銵old variant of 铿