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锵

qiāng

Character Traditional 鏘

What 锵 means

1. tinkling of small bells

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 containing 锵

• 铿锵kēng qiāngsonorous; resounding; fig. resounding words

Characters that look like 锵

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

• 锡xītin (chemistry); to bestow; to confer
• 蝙biānused in 蝙蝠
• 镉gécadmium (chemistry)
• 鹌ānused in 鹌鹑
• 鹕húused in 鹈鹕
• 蝾róngsalamander

Sounds the same

Read qiāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 枪gun; firearm; rifle
• 腔(bound form) cavity; (bound form) speech; talk; tune
• 羌muntjac; grammar particle indicating nonsense (classical)
• 呛to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way)
• 将to desire; to invite; to request
• 抢(literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage)…
• 跄walk rapidly
• 戕to kill; to injure; Taiwan pr. qiáng
• 戗contrary; pushing against; bump
• 蜣dung beetle
• 镪sulfuric acid
• 锖the color of a mineral