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锂

lǐ

Character Traditional 鋰

What 锂 means

1. lithium (chemistry)

Example sentences

• 这艘货运飞船将为太空站工作人员运送超过四吨的补给品、水、备件和实验硬件，其中包括完成太空站电力系统全面升级所需的六块新的锂离子电池。
  The cargo craft will carry more than four tons of supplies, water, spare parts and experiment hardware for the station crew, including six new lithium-ion batteries needed to complete an overall update of the station’s electrical system.

Words starting with 锂

• 锂电池lǐ diàn chílithium battery
• 锂离子电池lǐ lí zǐ diàn chílithium ion battery

Characters built on 里

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

• 理lǐtexture; grain (of wood); inner essence
• 厘líone hundredth; centi-
• 哩lǐmile
• 狸lí(bound form) used in the names of small mammals
• 鲤lǐcarp
• 俚lǐrustic; vulgar; unrefined
• 娌lǐused in 妯娌

Characters that look like 锂

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)
• 铵ǎnammonium
• 铛chēngfrying pan; griddle
• 锢gùobstinate disease; to restrain; to stop
• 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 lǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 里lining; interior; inside
• 理texture; grain (of wood); inner essence
• 礼gift; rite; ceremony
• 李plum
• 哩mile
• 娌used in 妯娌
• 俚rustic; vulgar; unrefined
• 澧Lishui River in north Hunan, flowing into Lake Dongting 洞庭湖; surname Li
• 鲤carp
• 豊ceremonial vessel; variant of 礼
• 醴sweet wine
• 浬nautical mile