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锝

dé

Character Traditional 鍀

What 锝 means

1. technetium (chemistry)

Characters that look like 锝

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

• 锁suǒto lock; to lock up; a lock
• 锦jǐnbrocade; embroidered work; bright
• 锯jùa saw; to saw
• 嘤yīngcalling of birds
• 镂lòuto engrave; to carve; hard steel
• 缛rùadorned; beautiful

Sounds the same

Read dé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 德virtue; goodness; morality
• 得to obtain; to get; to gain
• 㝵to obtain (old variant of 得
• 淂(river); old variant of 得
• 㥁variant of 德

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