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锕

ā

Character Traditional 錒

What 锕 means

1. actinium (chemistry)

Example sentences

• 锕在1899年被他发现。
  Actinium was discovered by André-Louis Debierne in 1899.

Words starting with 锕

• 锕系元素ā xì yuán sùactinoids (rare earth series), namely: actinium Ac89 锕

Characters that look like 锕

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

• 断duànto break; to snap; to cut off
• 御yù(bound form) imperial; royal; (literary) to drive (a carriage); (literary) to manage…
• 溯sùto go upstream; to trace the source
• 鄙bǐrustic; low; base
• 绷bēngto draw tight; to stretch taut; to tack (with thread or pin); (bound form) embroidery hoop
• 辋wǎngtire; wheel band

Sounds the same

Read ā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 啊interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh!
• 阿prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity…
• 腌used in 腌臜; Taiwan pr. āng
• 吖(used in transliterating chemical names)
• 呵variant of 啊