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锗

zhě

Character Traditional 鍺

What 锗 means

1. germanium (chemistry)

Characters built on 者

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

• 奢shēextravagant
• 啫zhěused in 啫哩
• 赭zhěocher

Characters that look like 锗

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

• 销xiāoto melt (metal); to cancel; to annul; to sell
• 错cuòmistake; wrong; bad
• 键jiànkey (on a piano or computer keyboard); button (on a mouse or other device); chemical bond
• 锻duànto forge; to discipline; wrought
• 锉cuò(literary) to fracture (a bone); (literary) to cut; to hack
• 楂cháfell trees; raft; to hew

Sounds the same

Read zhě, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 者(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er
• 褶pleat; crease; Taiwan pr. zhé
• 啫used in 啫哩
• 赭ocher